TNAG-1274-FCO40-1624-Vietnamese-refugees-in-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 303

Extant from UNHCR report of Executive Committee conchisions

in the 35th U.N. otheral Assently (1980) Supplement 12A (A|35|12| Add...)

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(3) Voluntary repatriation

(a) Recognized that voluntary repatriation constitutes generally, and in particular when a country accedes to independence, the most appropriate solution for refugee problems;

(b) Stressed that the cssentially voluntary character of repatriation should always be respected;

(c) Recognized the desirability of appropriate arrangements to establish the voluntary character of repatriation, both as regards the repatriation of individual refugees and in the case of large-scale repatriation movements, and for UNHCR, whenever necessary, to be associated with such arrangements;

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