also contributed funds to the Government of Cambodia. at the latters request. to help meet the refugee problem in that country. The High Commissioner has been particularly active under his good offices function in helping to resolve refugee problems in Africa during the past 3 years. These problems involved some 6.000 refugees from Ghana who fled into Togo. over 150.000 Angolan refugees who entered the Congo. and 150.000 refugees from Rwanda who fled during 1961 into the neighboring asylum countries of Uganda. Tanganyika. Burundi and the Kivu Province of the Congo. The pattern of UNHCR assistance has been similar in all of these cases. In each case the asylum government requested the UNHCR to coordinate the development of international assistance and to act jointly with it in supervising the assistance program. the UNHCR called upon the League of International Red Cross Societies and the voluntary agencies to provide resources and staff. acting as its operational agents. and the UNHCR arranged and supervised programs for resettling the refugees on land within the asylum countries. In addition to interim direct relief. the refugees have been given housing materials and construction tools. and seeds and agricultural implements. to help them become selfsufficient. Through these efforts the UNHCR was able to solve completely the problem in Togo by the end of 1962. and has made signficant progress in resolving the problems of the Angolan and Rwanda refugees. While the High Commissioner has devoted only about $3 million of his own funds to these good offices programs. as in the case of the refugee problem in Europe. he has successfully mobilized the attention and resources of the international community toward helping to put an end to problems which are a threat to the peace and which arise from the disturbing political developments of the 20th century. Consistent with his mandate fromthe General Assembly. the High Commissioner has attacked all the problems within the purview of his office on a purely humanitarian and nonpolitical basis. Mr. President. this sums up in hard. cold. numerical facts. the accomplishments of the refugee program carried out by the United Nations High Commissioner. What I have been unable to do is to reflect the pathos. multiplied millions of times. signified by the refugees helped. Words could not accomplish this. Each of us would have to see for himself the privation. hunger. ill health -and objection in the faces of these displaced persons of the world.
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