CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
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1975 (Executive Committee—26 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 ESTABLISHING A SUB-COMMITTEE OF<br />
<strong>THE</strong> WHOLE ON INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION 1<br />
No. 1 (XXVI) ESTABLISHMENT OF <strong>THE</strong> SUB-COMMITTEE AND GENERAL (1975)<br />
The Executive Committee,<br />
(a) Expressed appreciation to the High Commissioner for the way he was discharging his duties in this<br />
especially important and particularly difficult field and fully shared his concern at the numerous and flagrant<br />
violations of the human rights of refugees;<br />
(b) Fully endorsed the proposal that at an appeal be made urging States Members of the United Nations<br />
and non-member States to conform fully with the humanitarian principles governing the protection of refugees<br />
and, in particular, to abide by the provisions of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and of its<br />
1967 Protocol and scrupulously to observe the principle whereby no refugee should be forcibly returned to a<br />
country where he fears persecution;<br />
(c) Stressed that, in keeping with the universal character of the problem of refugees, many more States<br />
should accede to international instruments relating to the status of refugees and that these instruments be fully<br />
implemented according to both the letter and spirit in which they had been conceived;<br />
(d) Considered that a conference of plenipotentiaries should be convened, as envisaged, to consider the<br />
draft Convention on Territorial Asylum, and recommended that the cost involved in this conference be borne<br />
from the regular budget of the United Nations;<br />
(e) Recommended that the views of the Committee in (d) above be conveyed to the General Assembly of<br />
the United Nations;<br />
(f) Emphasized that, in keeping with the fundamental principles of family unity, members of refugee<br />
families should be given every opportunity to be reunited by being allowed to leave their country of origin;<br />
(g) Welcomed the High Commissioner's continuing efforts to survey individual cases with a view to<br />
identifying major protection problems and recommended that Governments should contribute to achieving rapid<br />
solutions to such problems;<br />
(h) Decided on the establishment of a Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection which<br />
would meet, in principle, during the sessions of the executive committee and would study in more detail some of<br />
the more technical aspects of the protection of refugees and would report to the Committee on its findings.<br />
1 Contained in United Nations General Assembly Document No. 12A (A/10012/Add.1)<br />
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