A/RES/48/117
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Recognizing the importance and validity of the Declaration and the
Concerted Plan of Action in favour of Central American Refugees, Returnees and
Displaced Persons, adopted at the International Conference on Central American
Refugees held at Guatemala City from 29 to 31 May 1989 2/ and the Declarations
of the First and Second International Meetings of the Follow-Up Committee of
the Conference, 3/
Recalling the outcome of the meetings of the Follow-Up Committee of the
International Conference on Central American Refugees, held at San José on 2
and 3 April 1991, at San Pedro Sula, Honduras, from 17 to 19 June 1991, at
Tegucigalpa on 13 and 14 August 1991, at Managua on 25 and 26 October 1991, at
San Salvador on 7 and 8 April 1992 and at Managua on 29 September and 28
October 1992,
Taking note of the report of the Follow-Up Committee of the Conference,
submitted to the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees at its forty-fourth session, concerning the
implementation of the Concerted Plan of Action,
Noting with satisfaction the efforts being made by the Central American
countries, Belize and Mexico to find lasting solutions to the problems of the
refugees, returnees and displaced persons in implementing the aims and
objectives of the Concerted Plan of Action as an integral part of efforts to
achieve a firm and lasting peace and democratization of the region,
Welcoming with satisfaction the progress made in El Salvador in
achieving the consolidation of peace in that country, in accordance with the
peace agreements and the National Reconstruction Plan, the efforts to achieve
peace and reconciliation in Guatemala, and the efforts made in Nicaragua to
achieve the objectives of national reconciliation and to assist the uprooted
populations, all of which continue to encourage movements of voluntary
repatriation and settlement of internally displaced persons,
Bearing in mind the joint political and economic communiqué adopted at
the ninth Ministerial Conference between the States members of the European
Community and Central America, the San José IX Summit, held at San Salvador on
22 and 23 February 1993, and the joint declaration of the fourteenth summit
meeting of Central American Presidents, held at Guatemala City from 27 to 29
October 1993, in which the need for international support for the programmes
carried out within the framework of the International Conference on Central
American Refugees was reaffirmed,
Recognizing the substantial support that, inter alia, the SecretaryGeneral, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
United Nations Development Programme, the donor community and national and
international non-governmental organizations have given the Conference since
its inception,
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2/
See A/44/527 and Corr.1 and 2, annex.
3/
CIREFCA/CS/90/10 and CIREFCA/CS/92/11.
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