A/RES/48/139
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Stressing the need for strengthening international cooperation aimed at
averting new massive flows of refugees while providing durable solutions to
actual refugee situations,
Reaffirming its resolution 41/70 of 3 December 1986, in which it
endorsed the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the
Group of Governmental Experts on International Cooperation to Avert New Flows
of Refugees, 2/
Bearing in mind its resolution 46/127 of 17 December 1991 and Commission
on Human Rights resolution 1993/70 of 10 March 1993, 3/ as well as all
previous relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission,
Noting that the Secretary-General, in his report on the strengthening of
the coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United
Nations, 4/ states that in complex emergencies, humanitarian assistance is
essential but must be complemented by measures to address the root causes of
such emergencies, and that the establishment of the inter-agency consultation
on early warning serves the purposes of both prevention and preparedness,
Noting also that the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has specifically acknowledged the
direct relationship between the observance of human rights standards, refugee
movements and problems of protection,
1.
Recalls its endorsement, in its resolution 41/70, of the
recommendations and conclusions contained in the report of the Group of
Governmental Experts on International Cooperation to Avert New Flows of
Refugees, including, inter alia, the call upon all States to promote human
rights and fundamental freedoms and to refrain from denying these to
individuals in their population because of nationality, ethnicity, race,
religion or language;
2.
Once again invites all Governments and intergovernmental and
humanitarian organizations concerned to intensify their cooperation with and
assistance to world-wide efforts to address the serious problems resulting
from mass exoduses of refugees and displaced persons, and also the causes of
such exoduses;
3.
Requests all Governments to ensure the effective implementation of
the relevant international instruments, in particular in the field of human
rights and humanitarian law, as this would contribute to averting new massive
flows of refugees and displaced persons;
4.
Requests all United Nations bodies, including the United Nations
human rights treaty bodies, the specialized agencies and governmental,
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to cooperate fully with
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2/
A/41/324, annex.
3/
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993,
Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23), chap. II, sect. A.
4/
A/47/595.
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