9.
separated from our families.
In leaving, we were fully aware of
We
the risks and dangers awaiting us of being drowned, losing the
way, dying of thirst or hunger, mecting sca-pirates and of not
being able to find any country willing to rive us asylum.
know that many could not make it, but we still had to do it,
because this was the only way'.
22.
I am sure all of us will remember these words as we
deliberate. The protection of the dignity and rights of the
individual refugee is the essence of our work. It is our duty,
vidual
jointly, to ensure that the refugees are humanely received,
It is also
not
rejected at the frontier, nor thrust back to sca.
our duty, jointly, tc ensure that humane and durable solutions
arc swiftly found to case their suffering.
Kuala Lumpur
20 September 1978
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