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MARK II

Draft Resolution on Item 83: (Report of the Secretary-General on the

Geneva Meeting)

The General Assembly

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the

Meeting on Refugees and Displaced Persons in Southeast Asia, held

in Geneva, on 20-21 July 1979, under his chairmanship, and

having heard his statement,

Taking note of the progress mentioned in the Secretary-

General's report, indicating a decrease in the number of boat

cases arriving in other Southeast Asian countries since August

1979.

Expressing its deep concern with the serious plight of

the refugees and displaced persons, both land and boat cases,

in Southeast Asia, and the severe burden that the problem

causes för many countries, particularly the other developing

countries of Southeast Asia,

Noting that further action is required to deal adequately

with the land cases, whose number remain, substantially higher

than the boat cases,

Gravely concerned with the current exodus of over 200,000

Kampucheans and the worsening condition of hunger, malnutrition

and disease facing them, and their urgent need of prompt and

effective international assistance,

Noting the results of the Pledging Conference for

Emergency Humanitarian Relief to the People of Kampuchea, held

at the United Nations Headquarters, on 6 November 1979, under the