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5.

As a result of all these factors, many governments have reached the conclusion that serious attention must be paid to analysing the forces which get people on the move, with a view particularly to considering whether means can be found to avert new large-scale refugee situations. At the same time,

the need has been

been felt to study the phenomenon of mass exodus in the context of human rights. Hence the initiative of the United Nations Commission Human Rights contained in its Resolution 29 (XXXVII) to appoint a Special Rapporteur.

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6. This Study, which may have raised great expectations in some quarters, cannot hope to provide all the answers. Moreover, it will

will mean different things to different people, just as observers of the same landscape focus on different aspects of it. It is, however, written in a spirit of detachment and objectivity, presenting as factual an assessment

factual an assessment as possible of the situation at certain moment of time. The situation has not been exactly the same before, and will not be the

be the same

same afterwards, for the picture is a changing one and a still photograph taken after an interval would not reproduce precisely the same image as earlier one.

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7. The scope of the Study and the methodology followed by the Special Rapporteur are discussed in the opening chapter. Consultations were held with governments, with specialized agencies and subsidiary organs of the United Nations system, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in con- sultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social

Council.

As a result of these consultations and of the considerable volume of data made available for the Study, it has been possible to arrive at certain conclusions and

recommendations.