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14. At its 35th session the General Assembly adopted, without a vote, Resolution 35/196 of 15 December 1980 in which it

expressed deep concern at the continued incidence of large- scale exoduses and displacements of populations and at the resulting hardships and problems of the persons and states concerned. At the same time, the General Assembly had been seized with the question of "international co-operation to avert new flows of refugees". Through an initiative taken by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Special Political Committee has discussed in detail ways and means to avert or contain mass exoduses involving refugees leading to the adoption of Resolution 35/124 of 11 December 1980. The Report submitted by the Secretary-General in accordance with paragraph three of this resolution (A/36/582 and the addenda), containing obser- vations received from governments, have many elements directly relevant to the Study of the Special Rapporteur. sequent resolution adopted by the General Assembly at its last session (A/36/148) established a Group of Governmental Experts whose work will have direct relevance to various aspects of the

phenomenon of mass exodus.

The sub-

15. In carrying out his task, the Special Rapporteur has based his findings essentially on actual situations, a succinct

account of each of which is contained in the annexes to the

Study. The purpose of these studies is essentially to provide supportive background to the observations and conclusions

of the Special Rapporteur. Annex I is an overview of the situations from 1970 to 1980 in which international assistance

has been needed by tens or hundreds of thousands of people who left their countries for a variety of reasons,

reasons, excluding however four situations which are the subject of case studies

given as Annex II. The third Annex is a thumb-nail sketch of

the migratory movements of the last decade brought about largely by the search for work.