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ship, or to provide help to refugees without taking them on board
his vessel; (b) There are difficulties in proposing that any
measures should be adopted concerning financial compensation from
international sources for costs, losses and liabilities incurred by
shipowners as a result of their compliance with their obligation
to render assistance. However if there is no universal observance
of the obligations to render assistance, of the commitment to the
first port of call principle, or of flag states to provide a haven
of last resort then shipowners rescuing refugees could be palced
in an impossible position. In such circumstances participants may
wish to consider how compensation could be supported).
(ii) Participants could declare that for the purposes of
no distinction is to be drawn between the survivors
rescue at sea,
of shipwreck or conventional maritime disaster, and refugees who
may have left their country in unseaworthy craft.
(iii)
Participants could call on the masters of vessels of
all states not to deviate from the probable and usual
course of
their voyage except as might be necessary to carry out their
obligation to render assistance to those in distress and to take
action on consequences arising.
(iv) Participants could call on states not already parties
to the relevant international Conventions to accede to them.
(v) Participants could agree to ensure that vessels under
their control should not accept or execute charters, the essential
purpose of which is to convey refugees as illegal emigrants from
their own country.
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