Hungarian refugees in Austria who wish to settle in a member country of the Council of Europe

Recommendation 188 (1959)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

(see Doc. 914, Report of the Committee on Population and Refugees). This Recommendation was adopted by the Assembly at its 29th Sitting, on 21st January 1959

The Assembly,

Considering that there were still 15,700 Hungarian refugees, including 5,700 living in camps, in Austria on 15th October 1958 ;

Being informed that, according to an inquiry carried out by the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, about 1,000 of these refugees have expressed the wish to settle in a member country of the Council of Europe,

Recommends that the Committee of Ministers should invite Member Governments to offer Hungarian refugees in Austria without delay, through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, opportunities for resettlement, taking into consideration, as far as possible, the preferences expressed by these refugees with regard to their emigration.