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Moreover, the granting of asylum merely >me States in different parts of the world
rary basis, a practice which ompelled to follow, continues › give rise to considerable problems. Efforts to find a country of resettlement or refugees who have received only temporary asylum may not always meet with success
may require an extended period during which the refugees may find themselves in situation characterized by great anxiety and uncertainty as to the future. The fact at their presence in the country is regarded as purely temporary may also result 1 a number of disadvantages of a more tangible nature. The refugees may thus be equired to reside in camps or reception centres under difficult conditions, in some
ses for long periods of time.
A related problem concerns the practice, followed by a number of States, of enerally regarding asylum-seekers as illegal immigrants. This practice frequently
sults in asylum-seekers being exposed to a number of difficulties including serious asures such as detention and expulsion.
These situations, which very often involve much human suffering, could be oided if Governments could find it possible to grant durable rather than temporary ylum, and to ensure that refugees who have not been granted durable asylum are ovided with satisfactory living conditions pending resettlement.
It should of course be stressed that a majority of States, in accordance with ng-standing humanitarian traditions, continue to follow liberal practices in anting durable asylum to refugees.
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foulement of refugees and asylum-seekers
At the Executive Committee's thirtieth session, attention was drawn to the asures taken in one area involving the large-scale forcible return of asylum-seekers
their country of origin in disregard of the principle of non-refoulement. It is atifying to note that in the area in question there have been no further such stances and that great numbers of asylum-seekers arriving by land have been given
least temporary refuge.
The High Commissioner has, however, received disquieting reports concerning e refoulement of groups of asylum-seekers in another area. He has also continued
receive reports of measures of refoulement being taken in different areas against dividual asylum-seekers and refugees. Such measures inevitably result in nsiderable human suffering and constitue a serious violation of the internationally- cepted principle of non-refoulement. The need for scrupulous observance of this inciple has been repeatedly stressed by the Executive Committee and also by the ited Nations General Assembly.
Measures of refoulement have also resulted from the absence of appropriate ocedures for ensuring that refugees or asylum-seekers are identified as such. e importance of procedures for determining refugce status has been stressed peatedly by the Executive Committee.