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the International Law Commission and to arrange for the

views of the Committee to be placed before the Commission

as well as to consider the report of the Commission and to

make recommendations thereon to the member governments.

This traditional function of the Committee has led to very

close working relations between the International Law

Commission and the AALCC and it has been the normal practice

for the Commission to request its President to attend the Committee's annual sessions. A brief report containing the

progress made at the Thirty ninth Session of the Commission held in 1987 (May to July) will be placed before the Committee. The Report will include material on the progress made in the Commission on International Rivers.

Status and Treatment of Refugees (Item III.1)

This subject

has been originally referred to the Committee by the Government of Egypt in 1964. After detailed consideration of the subject at the Committee's Cairo (1964), Baghdad (1965) and Bangkok (1966) Sessions, the Committee had adopted a set of recommendations in 1966 which are known as the "Bangkok Principles." The topic

was taken up again for consideration on certain aspects

at the suggestion of the Government of Pakistan and was discussed at the Karachi (1969) and Accra (1970) Sessions when an Addendum to the Bangkok Principles was incorporated. The matter was thereafter postponed for consideration at

a future session. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had suggested in 1980 and again in 1981 that the Committee might consider some aspects of the problem in the light of new developments in the

region. At the Tokyo Session the Committee, after brief

discussions, had decided that to begin with, the Committee might study some of the new areas of refugee law, namely,

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