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The UN Group of Governmental Experts on International Co-Operation to Avert New Flows of Refugees: Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Luke T. Lee
Luke T. Lee*
Affiliation:
Office of Planning and Programs, Office of the United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs
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This is the second of a two-part report on the UN Group of Governmental Experts on International Co-operation to Avert New Flows of Refugees. The group completed its work in May 1986 when it submitted its report to the Secretary-General for transmittal to the General Assembly. It had held eight sessions in New York, two every spring since April 1983 of mainly 2-week duration each, and had closely followed the Programme of Work adopted at its second session.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 442 - 444
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1987

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References

1 For the earlier report, see Lee, , The UN Group of Governmental Experts on International Cooperation to Avert New Flows of Refugees 78 AJIL 480 (1984)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See UN Doc. A/41/324 (1986) [hereinafter cited as Report].

3 See Lee, supra note 1, at 481–82.

4 Report, supra note 2, ch. III-A.

5 See Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, July 28, 1951, 19 UST 6259, TIAS No. 6577, 189 UNTS 150, Art. 1 (AX2). See also Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, Jan. 31, 1967, 606 UNTS 267, 19 UST 6223, TIAS No. 6577, Art. 1(2) (which incorporates the above definition).

6 Report, supra note 2, ch. III-B.

7 Apparently in view of the fact that large numbers of people driven across national boundaries by drought or spreading deserts in Africa have been treated as “refugees.”

8 Report, supra note 2, para. 47.

9 Id., para. 53.

10 Id., para. 63.

11 See, in particular, Art. 1(1) and ch. VII.

12 See Art. 19(1) of the Draft Articles on State Responsibility, Part I, adopted on first reading by the International Law Commission, [1980] 2 Y.B. Int’l L. Comm’n, pt. 2 at 30, UN Doc. A/CN.4/SER.A/1980/Add.1. For commentary on this article, see [1976] 2 id., pt. 2 at 95–122, UN Doc. A/CN.4/SER.A/1976/Add. 1.

13 See Art. 1, Draft Articles on State Responsibility, supra note 12.

14 See Fifth Report on the Content, Forms and Degrees of State Responsibility (Part Two of the Draft Articles), UN Doc. A/CN.4/380 and Corr.1 (1984); Lee, , The Right to Compensation: Refugees and Countries of Asylum 80 AJIL 532, 562–63 (1986)Google Scholar.

15 An analysis of these and other features of the Group of Experts will appear in another paper.

16 Report, supra note 2, para. 66(a) and (b).

17 Id., para. 66(c)–(f).

18 UN Doc. A/AC.213/1985/WP.5, ch. V-B-g (1985).

19 Report, supra note 2, para. 70.

20 Id., para. 71.