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C.

Special Programmes

269. As at 31 March 1978, total contributions to Special Programmes in 1977 and 1978 amounted to $89,670,595 and $12,596,365 respectively. These amounts include contributions to the UNHCR Refugee Education Account and to the various special activities listed below, which were continued during the reporting period:

(a) United Nationa humanitarian assistance for Cyprus;

(b)

Assistance to displaced persons in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and the Lao People's Democratic Republic;

(c) Assistance to displaced persons in Thailand and other countries in Asia;

Assistance to returning refugees and displaced persons in Mozambique;

(a)

(e) UNHCR programme of humanitarian assistance to Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf region of Algeria;

(f) Special action in Lebanon;

(g) United Nations programme of humanitarian assistance in Angola;

(h) Emergency assistance for refugees from southern Africa.

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