Assembly
debate on 30 September 1969 (10th Sitting) (see Doc. 2634, report
of the Committee on Population and Refugees). Text adopted
by the Assembly on 30 September 1969 (10th Sitting).
Thesaurus
The Assembly,
1. Recalling its Recommendation
520 of 2 February 1968 and considering that the lot of
the refugees in the Middle East has not improved but has appreciably
deteriorated;
2. Considering that an intensified effort on the part of the
international community is indispensable to prevent the great majority
of these refugees from having to rely for many more years on international
charity;
3. Believing that one of the best ways of improving the lot of
refugees is to provide them with vocational training for the employment
already available or to be created in the host countries or elsewhere
in the near future;
4. Considering that the Council of Europe, the depository of
the moral and humanitarian values of European civilisation, is in
duty bound to continue to contribute towards a solution of this
problem,
5. Recommends that the Committee of Ministers invite member governments
to increase further and to continue their regular and special financial
contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees (UNRWA) and to give their political and moral support to
that organisation's work and to the work of other United Nations
specialised agencies and non-governmental organisations such as
the League of Red Cross Societies so as to enable refugees in the
Middle East to revert to a normal life.
