Participation of the Council of Europe in the "World Refugee Year"

Order 141 (1959)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

The Assembly,

Having regard to Resolution 167 and Recommendation 197, on Council of Europe participation in World Refugee Year,

1 Instructs the President of the Assembly to ask the European Parliamentary Assembly :

i to support plans for a World Refugee Year ;

ii to endeavour to secure a special contribution from the executive organs of the European Communities to the Special Council of Europe Fund for World Refugee Year,

2 Instructs the Secretary-General to place the appropriate departments of the Secretariat at the disposal of the Assembly and, in particular, of its Committee on Population and Refugees to assist them in planning and implementing the programme which constitues the Assembly's contribution to World Refugee Year.

3 Instructs its Committee on Population and Refugees :

i to watch over the implementation of the programme which is to constitute the Council's contribution to World Refugee Year ;

ii to submit to the Assembly, if possible during its Eleventh Session, proposals for several refugee re-classification schemes on a modest scale, on interest to the member countries where this problem is most serious.