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GENEVA MEETING AND MR HARTLING'S VISIT TO MINISTERS, 5 JUNE
I attended the meeting, held in Geneva under UNHCR auspices 1985, to discuss the arrival of asylum-seekers in Europe.
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The arrangements for the meeting open sessions with observer countries
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to a wide exchange of views or the reaching of practical conclusions. The closed sessions did, however, serve to demonstrate the near-termination of patience in Western European administrations with the large-scale flow of asylum-seekers from other continents; to this extent, we might be described as putting up the barriers against an unregulated inflow of such cases.
3. The topics which were raised included the burden on States' resources presented by the arrival of unreturnable non-refugees. In this context, some representatives made the point, already aired at the April meeting on irregular arrivals, that funds can only be spent once and that money which has to be devoted to unmeritorious cases on States' territories might not subsequently be available for true refugee aid and programmes later. I do not think that the point was lost on UNHCR. Also touched upon was the desirability of seeking solutions, possibly backed by financial support for specific projects, within the region from which flows of asylum-seekers originate. It was recommended that a system of ad hoc meetings be established whenever a State or UNHCR reason to anticipate a new flow. Following such a meeting, States and UNHCR would be free to contact, as appropriate, regional countries of first asylum or the originating State with a view to seeking solutions and safeguards which might avert a new flow to destinations outside the affected region.
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