CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
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The Executive Committee,<br />
1986 (Executive Committee—37 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. 41 (XXXVII) GENERAL (1986)<br />
(a) Recognized that the exercise of the High Commissioner's international protection function had become<br />
increasingly complex due to the growing number and changing composition of current movements of refugees<br />
and asylum-seekers;<br />
(b) Recognized that in view of the nature of contemporary refugee problems, the provision of solutions<br />
must be considered as an important aspect of the High Commissioner's international protection function;<br />
(c) Recognized the importance for Governments to provide their full support in making available durable<br />
solutions for refugee problems, whenever possible in regions of origin, in order to facilitate the effective<br />
exercise of the High Commissioner's international protection function; noted with appreciation the efforts<br />
undertaken by the High Commissioner since the Executive Committee's thirty-sixth session to arrange for<br />
consultations between concerned Governments in order to deal with problems relating to specific refugee groups<br />
and, in particular, the problem raised by the movement of refugees and asylum-seekers from one region to<br />
another;<br />
(d) Reiterated the crucial importance of voluntary repatriation as a solution to present-day refugee<br />
problems and welcomed the continuing efforts of the High Commissioner to promote voluntary repatriation<br />
taking into account Conclusions Nos. 18 and 40 adopted by the Executive Committee at its thirty-first and<br />
thirty-sixth sessions respectively;<br />
(e) Recognized that the search for durable solutions includes the need to address the causes of movements<br />
of refugees and asylum-seekers from countries of origin and the causes of onward movements from countries of<br />
first asylum;<br />
(f) Welcomed the recent accessions of Equatorial Guinea, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea and Venezuela, to<br />
the 1951 United Nations Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, thereby bringing<br />
to over 100 the number of States parties to these basic humanitarian instruments and welcomed the efforts of the<br />
Office to promote further accessions to these instruments to which it was hoped that all members of the United<br />
Nations would in due course become parties;<br />
(g) Reiterated the importance of national legislative and/or administrative measures to ensure the effective<br />
implementation of the standards defined in applicable international refugee instruments and welcomed the<br />
efforts of the High Commissioner to promote the further adoption of such measures;<br />
(h) Reaffirmed the importance of the Office's efforts to promote the development and strengthening of<br />
international refugee law through the organization or support of round tables, seminars and discussion groups in<br />
different areas of the world and to ensure that the principles of international refugee law are as widely<br />
disseminated as possible;<br />
(i) Recognized the value of international instruments defining standards for the treatment of refugees at the<br />
regional level and noted with appreciation the progress achieved in this field through the efforts of the Arab<br />
League, the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, the Council of Europe, the Organization of African<br />
Unity, the Organization of American States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference;<br />
(j) Noted with concern that in different areas of the world, the basic rights of refugees and asylum-seekers<br />
have been seriously violated and that refugees and asylum-seekers have been exposed to physical violence, acts<br />
of piracy and forcible return to their country of origin in disregard of the principle of non-refoulement;<br />
1 Contained in United Nations General Assembly Document No. 12A (A/41/12/Add.1)<br />
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