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AND MAINTENANCE WERE INCLUDED) WHICH CHRICK'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MOULD NOT TELERATE. 11 VERY FEW COUNTRIES COULD UNHCR AFFORD TO ACCEPT ALL CARE AND MAINTENANCE COSTS. IN SUDAN, FOR EXAMPLE, WHENE THERE HAS BEEN A LARGE RECENT INFLUX OF REFUGEES FROM UGANDA, UNNUR IS UNDERTAKING A PUMP-PRIMIG OPERATION AND URGING THE SUDANESE AUTHORITIES TO SEEK FUNDS FROM OTHER SOURCES SUCH AS THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME. THE NEXT STEP WOULD DE TO ENCOURAGE THE SUDANESE AUTHORITIES TO ALLOW THE REFUGEES TO WORK. (DAYAL ADDED THAT IT WOULD HELP IF THIS COULD BE MORE WIDELY PERMITTED IN HONG KONG).
5. A DISTINCTION SHOULD BE HAVE BETWEEN ON THE ONE HAND, THE UNHCR' S LECAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PROTECTION LAID DOWN IN ITS STATUTE AND THE CONCOMITANT REGISTERING OF REFUGEES AND ON THE OTHER, THE ASSISTANCE ROLE WHICH HAD BEEN ADDED OVER THE YEARS AND WHICH IS ALWAYS A MATTER FOR AD HOC NEGOTIATION WITH THE MOST COUNTRY. IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES SUCH AS AUSTRIA KOST COSTS WOULD NORMALLY BE
EXPECTED TO BE PORNE BY THE HOST GOVERNMENT.
6. IT WAS TRUE THAT HITHERTO REFUGEES UNDER A UNHCR ROOF OR IN
A UNHCR CAMP MORMALLY HAD ALL THEIR CUSTS FINANCED BY UNKCK. PUT THE SITUATION IN SOUTH EAST ASIA WAS UNIQUE. THERE WAS LITTLE INCLINATION TO ALLOW LOCAL RESETTLEMENT AND LITTLE HOPE FOR REPATRIATION (UNHCR'S NORMAL METHODS OF OBTAINING DURABLE SOLUTIONS). UNHCR COULD ONLY QUOTE TAKE OVER NEN CAMPS UNQUOTE IF THE QUESTION OF NANCE COULD BE RESOLVED FIRST.
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7. ONE HAD TO FOCUS ON THREE MAIN FACTORS HOUSING, REGISTRATION FOR RESETTLEMENT AND CARE AND MAINTENANCE. THE HIGH COMMISSIONER YOULD DO HIS VERY BEST WITHIN FINANCIAL LIMITS ON HOUSING. FE WOULD ALSO PROCEED WITH REGISTRATION AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE. BUT CARE AND MAINTENANCE WOULD HAVE TO BE NEGOTIATED.
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