CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
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The Executive Committee,<br />
1983 (Executive Committee—34 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. 29 (XXXIV) GENERAL (1983)<br />
(a) Reaffirmed the fundamental importance of the High Commissioner's international protection function;<br />
(b) Noted that the High Commissioner's international protection function includes, in addition to<br />
promoting the development and observance of basic standards for the treatment of refugees, promoting, by all<br />
means within his competence, measures to ensure the physical safety of refugees and asylum-seekers;<br />
(c) Noted with satisfaction that many States in different areas of the world-and in particular in developing<br />
countries faced with serious economic problems-have continued to apply recognized international humanitarian<br />
standards for the treatment of refugees and to respect the principle of non-refoulement;<br />
(d) Noted, however, with particular concern that in various regions the physical safety of refugees and<br />
asylum-seekers has been seriously violated through military or armed attacks, acts of piracy and other forms of<br />
brutality and the failure to rescue asylum-seekers in distress at sea;<br />
(e) Noted also with concern that the exercise of the High Commissioner's international protection function<br />
has been rendered more difficult in many areas of the world by restrictive trends relating to the granting of<br />
asylum and the determination of refugee status;<br />
(f) Stressed the importance for further States to accede to the 1951 United Nations Convention and the<br />
1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and welcomed the additional accessions to these important<br />
humanitarian instruments which had taken place since the Committee's thirty-third session;<br />
(g) Called on all States to ensure the full and effective application of these and other instruments for the<br />
protection of refugees to which they are parties;<br />
(h) Noted with satisfaction that further States have adopted national measures to ensure the effective<br />
implementation of the provisions of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol, particularly as regards<br />
procedures for the determination of refugee status, and stressed the importance for States to establish such<br />
procedures to ensure fair and equitable decision-making in line with the conclusions adopted by the Executive<br />
Committee at its twenty-eighth [No. 8] and thirty-third sessions [No. 28];<br />
(i) Reiterated the importance of determining the country which is responsible for examining an asylum<br />
request by the adoption of common criteria as identified in the Conclusion on Refugees without an Asylum<br />
Country adopted by the Executive Committee at its thirtieth session;<br />
(j) Recognized the importance of developing standards of protection by maintaining a constant dialogue<br />
with Governments, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions and of filling lacunae in<br />
international refugee law, particularly as regards asylum-seekers whose status has not been determined and as<br />
regards the physical protection of refugees and asylum-seekers;<br />
(k) Recognized the value of the High Commissioner's continuing activities in encouraging the teaching and<br />
further development of international refugee law and welcomed his intention to enlarge his Office's legal<br />
documentation centre in co-operation with the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo;<br />
(l) Recognized the essential need for the exercise of the High Commissioner's international protection<br />
function to be facilitated by the co-operation of Governments in granting asylum, in providing the durable<br />
solutions of resettlement and local integration and in creating conditions favourable to and promoting voluntary<br />
repatriation, which, whenever appropriate and feasible, is the most desirable durable solution for refugee<br />
problems; such co-operation should also include fostering in public opinion a deeper understanding of the<br />
special needs of refugees and asylum-seekers;<br />
1 Contained in United Nations General Assembly Document No. 12A (A/38/12/Add.1)<br />
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