Draft Resolution on Item 83: (Report of the Secretary-General on
the Geneva Meeting)
The General Assembly
THAILAND
(ASEAN)
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 significant decrease in the number of boat cases arriving in
other Southeast Asian countries
since August 1979, "furthus action is registred to
Noting that the Geneva-Meeting did not]deal adequately
SEAD
with the land cases, whose number remain substantially higher CE A
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,
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 for many countries, particularly the other developing countries of Southeast Asia, ·
Noting the results of the Pledging Conference for Emergency Eumanitarian Relief to the People of Kampuchea, held at the United Nations Headquarters, on 5 November 1979, under the
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