On
the Proposal of the Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, the
Assembly directs that the following preparatory measures be taken to enable the
question of European refugees to be included on the Agenda of the next
Session.
1. The Secretariat of the Council of Europe is
instructed to collect all necessary data in order to give the Assembly and the
Committee full information on the problem of refugees and to establish, in this
connection, the necessary contacts with the U. N. 0., and particularly with the
I. R. O., with the Governments of the various European States, competent
administrative services and private institutions concerned.
2. The
Assembly requests the Secretariat to carry out investigations on the following
questions: legal status of the various groups of displaced persons; the
eventual possibility for such displaced persons either to find employment in
Europe or to emigrate; material and moral needs to be met, particularly as far
as the "hard core" is concerned, as well as eventual overlapping of the
activities of already existing organisations, and determining of such fields as
are not yet covered by any administrative
organisation.
