Assistance to Student Refugees in Southern Africa

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1986.

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11 versions · 1981–1991

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/45/171

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16 topics

Botswana Conferences Educational Assistance Eswatini Humanitarian Assistance Inter-Agency Cooperation Lesotho Namibia Namibian Refugees Refugee Assistance South Africa South African Refugees Southern Africa Student Refugees Territorial Asylum Zambia

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10 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;

Expresses its appreciation to the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia for granting asylum and making educational and other facilities available to the student refugees, in spite of the pressure which the continuing influx of those refügees exerts on facilities in their countries;

A/so expresses its appreciation to the Govemments of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia for the cooperation which they have extended to the High Commissioner on matters conceming the welfare of these refugees;

Notes with appreciation the financia! and material support provided for the student refugees by Member States, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, other bodies of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;

Requests the High Commissioner, in co-operation 5. with the Secretary-General, to continue to organize and implement an etfective programme of educational and other appropriate assistance for student refugees from Namibia and South Africa who have been granted asylum in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia;

Urges ali Member States and intergovemmental and non-governmental organizations to continue contributing generously to the assistance programme for student refugees, through financial support of the regular programmes of the High Commissioner and of the projects and programmes, including unfunded projects, which were submitted to the Second International Conference on Assistance to Refugees in A frica, 172 held at Gene va from 9 to 11 July 1984;

A/so urges ali Member States and ali intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to assist the countries of asylum materially and otherwise to enable them to continue to discharge their humanitarian obligations towards refugees;

Appeals to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Development Programme and ali other competent United Nations bodies, as well as other intemational and non-govemmental organizations, to continue providing humanitarian and development assistance so as to facilitate and expedite the settlement of student refugees from South Africa who have been granted asylum in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia;

Calls upon agencies and programmes of the United Nations system to continue co-operating with the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner in the implementation of humanitarian programmes of assistance for the student refugees in southem Africa;

Requests the High Commissioner, in co-operation with the Secretary-General, to continue to keep the matter under review, to apprise the Economic and Social Council, at its second regular session of 1986, of the current status ofthe programmes and to report to the General Assembly at its forty-first session on the implementation ofthe present resolution.

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