Mr. Speaker. it Is just a matter of hours until World Refugee Year becomes history. This yeardedicated to alleviating the plight of the earths uprooted peoplesis due to end on midnight. June 30. Some 70 nations of the free world joined In proclaiming World Refugee Year under the auspices of a United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in December 1958. According to the United Nations resolution the World Refugee Year was to have the following aims: "To focus interest on the refugee problem. to encourage additional financial contributions from governments. voluntary agencies and the general public. to encourage additional opportunities for permanent refugee solutions through voluntary repatriation. resettlement or integration on a purely humanitarian basis." It is too early to assay the general impact of World Refugee Year upon the total problem toward which it was directed. Indeed. it is hoped that this impact will not cease to be felt with the passing of World Refugee Year. but that the increased efforts and the solutions that were found during the year will continue to be applied as long as world refugee problems remain to be overcome. There is no single world refugee problem. There are many of them. Someone has said that the refugees are not a stagnant pool but a running stream of humanity. New peoples are constantly Joining their ranka others gradually leaving them. It is not an easy task to ascertain the nature and extent of the refugee problems throughout the world. A complex A5724 of economic. social. political and humanitarian considerations are involved. These considerations vary with each group of refugees and with each individual within a group. They do not all need. nor do they want. the same type of assistance. They do not all wish. for example. to be moved once more and resettled in a strange and foreign land.
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