Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to join my colleagues in the House in paying a special. welldeserved tribute to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). the recipient of this years Nobel Peace Prize. As the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. which shares in the jurisdiction the committee exercises over U.S. participation in the UNHCR programs. I have had the recent privilege to meet with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. the Honorable Poul -Hartling. former Prime Minister of Denmark. The Office which he heads has been charged by the United Nations. over the past three decades. with providing international protection for refugees and for assisting their repatriation or resettlement. While seeking initially to provide immediate. emergenby care for refugees. the agency . has also sought to find more permanent solutions. Over the past several years. we have seen heavy refugee flows in the Indochina region. into Pakistan from Afghanistan. in Africa. and. .within this hemisphere. in Central America. The United States has always shared
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