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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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DR Snoxell Esq"
UKMis Geneva
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Your reference
Our reference
UNS 243/25
Date
29 September 1980
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UNHCR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: SUB-COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION
EC/SCP/14
Four, copies of the Home Office brief on the Problems of Extra- dition affecting Refugees are attached.
EC/SCP/13: Voluntary Repatriation
We have not se received the brief on this. The text will be telegraphed to you as soon as it is available. The only comment Mr McDowall, has on this paper which is a general statement of principle is on para 15. The Home Office will be looking at the question of travel documentation with their Legal Adviser.
3 Australian Views on the International Protection of Refugees: Temporary Refuge and International Solidarity.
Four copies of a paper dictated by Mr McDowall of the Home Office are enclosed You will also have received a copy of the record of a conversation on 23 September between Ian Mackley' and the Australian Counsellor here. A summary of the views of departments here (mostly spelled out by Ian during his conversation) are below:
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In our view each refugee situation is sui generis
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Although idea of temporary refuge may be worthy of consideration proposals do not appear to help in improving co-ordination or solving root causes As Explanatory Comments point out, legal concept barely examined.
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