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 />
1987 (Executive Committee—38 th Session)<br />
No. 49 (XXXVIII) TRAVEL DOCUMENTS FOR REFUGEES ∗ (1987)<br />
Reaffirming the importance of the issue of travel documents to refugees for temporary travel outside their<br />
country of residence and for resettlement in other countries;<br />
Recalling its Conclusion No. 13 (XXIX) on Travel Documents for Refugees;<br />
Recalling further Article 28 of the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and<br />
the Schedule and Annex thereto;<br />
(a) Welcomed the Note of the High Commissioner on follow-up to the earlier Conclusion of the Executive<br />
Committee on Travel Documents for Refugees (EC/SCP/48);<br />
(b) Expressed satisfaction that the great majority of States parties to the 1951 U.N. Convention and/or the<br />
1967 Protocol follow or sometimes exceed the above-mentioned provisions of the 1951 U.N. Convention and<br />
Conclusion No. 13 (XXIX) concerning the issue of travel documents to refugees;<br />
(c) Noted, however, that in some countries problems concerning Convention Travel Documents continue<br />
to exist as regards arrangements for their issue, their geographical and temporal validity, the return clause, their<br />
extension or renewal, the transfer of responsibility for their issue and the obtaining of visas;<br />
(d) Urged all States parties to the 1951 U.N. Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol which have not yet done<br />
so to take appropriate legislative or administrative measures to implement effectively the provisions of these<br />
instruments concerning the issue of Convention Travel Documents (Article 28, Schedule, Annex), including the<br />
giving of clear instructions to national authorities competent to issue, renew and extend travel documents and<br />
grant visas to holders of Convention Travel Documents;<br />
(e) Urged all States not parties to the 1951 U.N. Convention and/or the 1967 Protocol which have not yet<br />
done so to take appropriate legislative or administrative measures to ensure that refugees are issued with<br />
appropriate travel documents under conditions as similar as possible to those attaching to the Convention Travel<br />
Documents;<br />
(f) Expressed appreciation for the various types of assistance the High Commissioner provides<br />
Governments with respect to the issue of travel documents for refugees and requested him to continue his efforts<br />
in this regard, in particular by examining the possibility of modernizing the format of Convention Travel<br />
Documents.<br />
∗ CONCLUSION ENDORSED <strong>BY</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>EXECUTIVE</strong> COMMITTEE OF <strong>THE</strong> HIGH COMMISSIONER’S<br />
PROGRAMME UPON <strong>THE</strong> RECOMMENDATION OF <strong>THE</strong> SUB-COMMITTEE OF <strong>THE</strong> WHOLE ON<br />
INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF REFUGEES<br />
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