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member states of the United Nations should now be called

under the authority of your own high office, to seek wider

solutions to a problem which affects much more of the world

than the parts of South East Asia where the refugees seek

first asylum If this conference can assemble quickly it

might also be able to arrange for next July's meeting of the

Economic and Social Council to be the occasion for detailed

discussions of those aspects of the problem and measures

to alleviate it, which the conference itself wished to see,

considered in greater depth. But the matter is urgent. Too

many countries appear to have turned their backs on the

plight of the refugees, and the international community must

be brought to a proper realisation of its responsibilities

to humanity.

I welcome the appeal that you have made to Governments

throughout the world. This must now be translated into

A special conference will have our

action.

full support.

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