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(b) of some four thousand refugees registered by ICRC, about two thirds have links of some kind in third countries. During 1984 and in early 1985 about 1,600 refugees were resettled, the majority to the United States. During the last 12 months more than one thousand new arrivals were registered in the camp and 122 babies were born there.

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UNHCR appeals to all Governments to give particular consideration to these refugees for resettlement, especially to families and single parents with young children for whom living conditions in the border encampments are most precarious.