CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
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The Executive Committee,<br />
1978 (Executive Committee—29 th Session)<br />
<strong>CONCLUSIONS</strong> <strong>ADOPTED</strong><br />
<strong>BY</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>EXECUTIVE</strong> COMMITTEE<br />
ON INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF REFUGEES 1<br />
No. 11 (XXIX) GENERAL (1978)<br />
(a) Reiterated the fundamental importance of international protection, welcomed the action taken by the<br />
High Commissioner and the progress achieved in this field since the Committee's twenty-eighth session and<br />
recognized the need for efforts to be continued and further intensified;<br />
(b) Was seriously concerned that various problems arising in this field had not yet been resolved and that<br />
cases of non-observance of the basic human rights of refugees still continued to arise;<br />
(c) Recalled the Conclusions adopted at the twenty-eighth session concerning the importance of the<br />
observance of the principle of non-refoulement and was gravely preoccupied that this principle had, in a number<br />
of cases, still been disregarded;<br />
(d) Recalled the Conclusions adopted at the twenty-eighth session regarding asylum and expressed concern<br />
that refugees still encountered difficulties in obtaining permanent or even temporary asylum in certain areas;<br />
(e) Reaffirmed the principle of international solidarity as a primary condition for the practice of liberal<br />
asylum policies and for the effective implementation of international protection in general;<br />
(f) Welcomed the accession by additional States to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to<br />
the Status of Refugees but noted with concern that a large number of States including States having sizeable<br />
refugee problems, had not acceded to either of these instruments;<br />
(g) Recalled the Conclusions adopted in this matter at its twenty eighth session and expressed the hope that<br />
additional States would accede to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol in the near future;<br />
(h) Recognized the need for appropriate legislative or administrative measures on the national level with a<br />
view to the effective implementation of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol and urged all States parties<br />
to these instruments which had not yet done so to, initiate necessary measures in this regard;<br />
(i) Recalled in particular the Conclusions adopted at the twenty eighth session concerning procedures for<br />
the determination of refugee status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol, reiterated the importance<br />
of such procedures, welcomed their establishment by a number of states since the Committee's twenty-eighth<br />
session and expressed the hope that further States would give favourable consideration to the establishment of<br />
such procedures;<br />
(j) Recognized the value of efforts to secure a wider dissemination of the principle of refugee law through<br />
closer relations with educational and scientific institutions and more generally with circles concerned with<br />
humanitarian and refugee questions, and recommended that the High Commissioner pursue such efforts;<br />
(k) Welcomed the efforts made by the High Commissioner to make available additional staff members<br />
entrusted with protection duties both in <strong>UNHCR</strong> field offices and at <strong>UNHCR</strong> headquarters, and acknowledged<br />
with appreciation the support given to the High Commissioner in this respect by the Administrative<br />
Management Service;<br />
(l) Noted with appreciation the work of the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection and<br />
expressed its belief that the Sub-Committee had proved its value as an institution for the examination of specific<br />
problems arising in the field of international protection and for the recommendation of appropriate solutions.<br />
1 Contained in United Nations General Assembly Document No. 12A (A/33/12/Add.1)<br />
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