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Governments then had the opportunity to comment on them but in general the budget went through essentially unaltered. If governments knew that they had to pick up a fixed percentage of the budget they would inevitably take a closer interest in the formulation of it. Only the most naive of people could believe (a) that national hobby horses could be kept in perspective and (b) that recipient governments would not politicise the process. The result would be that the budget would become a political compromise rather than a need orientated programme. Furthermore, the practice of governments tying their donations to special appeals was beneficial in3two ways:
(i) it concetrated their minds on the actual need for
that particular programme;
(ii) it in effect gave donor countries weighted voting or even a veto on programmes that did not meet with their approval thereby ensuring that their long-term confidence in UNHCR was maintained.
Mii) it was on Sconce for discipue in the size of the
bucget
(c) refugee women the main problem with this issue is that UNHCR cannot offer physical protection to refugees, that is the responsibility of the host government.
(d) attacks on refugee camps
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as above.
(e) regionalisation of resettlement programmes. This is one area where Mr Lyonette thought that the hawks of Europe (and we are not one of them!) have got it badly wrong. The idea is that refugees should be settled in the region of their origin or of their country of first asylum. While the essence of this proposal is sensible, namely that the refugees should be settled in a country with a similar cultural and linguistic milieu, the hawks of Europe are pushing the idea too strongly, without thinking it through and with the main aim of reducing the number of refugees settling in Europe. But by excluding from their confidential talks on asylum seekers such conduits for refugees as Italy, Austria and Turkey they run the risk of coming to an agreement which (a) those countries may not accept and (b) in trying to exclude African and Asian refugees from Europe lumber themselves with an obligation to resettle all those refugees finding first asylum in the three countries named above.
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Mr Lyonette also gave a strong indication that M. Hocke is already making his managerial expertise felt in the UNHCR system. There is more training for field officers in resource management and a major review of the planning and career structure is nearing its close. After this Mr Lyonette expects M. Hocke to turn his attention to other thorny subjects such as the overall thrust of UNHCR under his leadership. Unfortunately Mr Lyonette had another appointment to go to so our talk had to be cut short before all the topics for discussion had been exhausted.
Mus Wyeth, BCD, CIDA Mr Mc Dawall H.C
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M, Nash, SEAD
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Bertan,
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M.T. TREVAN
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