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REFUGEES AND 37TH EXCOM GENEVA

1. COTE D'UNGIRE HAS 845 REFUGEES, REPRESENTING 23 KAT:PONAL-ÞTHES, INCLUDING VIETNAMESE (238), GHANAIANS (163), BURKINASE (110), CHADIENS (82), IRANIANS (66), BENMOHS (40) AND SPRINKLANG OF OTHERS, BURIMA HAS ABOUT 180 REFUGEES, HAMILY FROM CHAD AND GHANA, LOCAL UNHCR HAS ONLY TWO EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.

2. MARY RECEIVE ONLY DOCUMENTATHON ASSISTANCE SINCE THEY HAVE LARGELY BECOME FINANCIALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT, ESPECIALLY WIETNAMESE HRANIANS. BURKANABE AND GHANA PANS ARE OFTEN MIXTURE OF MANDATORY AND DISPLACED/ECONOMIC REFUGEES, ES WHERE EXTENDED FAMILY OF AN EX-MINISTER OR SENIOR OFFICIAL FEEL OBLIGED TO FLEE THE COUNTRY. NO STRICT CLASSIFICATION AVANABLE, GOVERNMENT GENERALLY ACCORDS FULL REFUGEE STATUS ON RECOMMENDATION OF UNHCR, EXCEPT WHERE REGIONAL POLITICS RULES THIS OUT.

3. NEEDS OF REFUGEES ASSESSED LOCALLY, WITH REFERENCE WHERE POSSIBLE TO COUNTRY OF OREGIN. FREQUENT FIELD WEPTS MADE, WORIAK GOVERNMENT DOES NOT ANVOLVE ITSELF DIRECTLY, FOR POLITICAL REASONS, BUT SUPPOSEDLY MAXES MODEST CONTRIBUTION TO UNHCR IN GENEVA. NO RECORD OF LOBBYING BY UNHCR FOR OVERSEAS TRAINING. LOCAL FUNDS VERY UNITED.

4. ASSISTANCE PROGRAMMES. ABOUT 20 RECE-BYE FUNDS FOR UNIVERSITY COURSES. REASONABLY SUCCESSFUL RESULTS PROVIDING LOCAL TRADES TRAMING.OR SETTLEMENT ON SMALL HOLDINGS AIMED AT EVENTUAL SELF- SUFFICIENCY. ALLOCATING LAND TO REFUGEES #6 JNEVITABLY SENSITIVE ISSUE WHICH GOVERNMENT COULD DO MORE. MAIN PROBLEM IS LACK OF FUNDS,

5. NO DUPLICATION, GOOD EXTRA-REGIONAL CONSULTATION/COOPERATION. CASE DECISIONS TAKEN DAKAR, MFA AND INTERIOR MINISTRY ARE LOCAL POINTS OF CONTACT.

6. STATISTICAL INFORMATION GOOD, ASSISTED BY LOCAL RED CROSS, CARITAS AND OTHER UN AGENCIES, AND LOCAL INFORMATION EXCHANGED ROUTINELY

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7. REFUGEES SECURITY SAFE UNLESS THEY BECOME POLITICAL

EMBARRASSMENT. THEY MIGHT THEN BE MOVED ON.

8. THERE ARE NO REFUGEE CAMPS.

9. FURTHER DETAILS REGIONAL SITUATION FOLLOW BY BAG.

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