A/RES/65/193
calls upon States to investigate fully any crime committed against humanitarian
personnel and bring to justice the persons responsible for such crimes;
20. Calls upon the Office of the High Commissioner, the African Union,
subregional organizations and all African States, in conjunction with agencies of the
United Nations system, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and
the international community, to strengthen and revitalize existing partnerships and
forge new ones in support of the protection system for refugees, asylum-seekers and
internally displaced persons;
21. Calls upon the Office of the High Commissioner, the international
community and other entities concerned to intensify their support to African
Governments through appropriate capacity-building activities, including training of
relevant officers, disseminating information about refugee instruments and
principles, providing financial, technical and advisory services to accelerate the
enactment or amendment and implementation of legislation relating to refugees,
strengthening emergency response and enhancing capacities for the coordination of
humanitarian activities, in particular those Governments that have received large
numbers of refugees and asylum-seekers;
22. Reaffirms the right of return and the principle of voluntary repatriation,
appeals to countries of origin and countries of asylum to create conditions that are
conducive to voluntary repatriation, and recognizes that, while voluntary
repatriation remains the pre-eminent solution, local integration and third-country
resettlement, where appropriate and feasible, are also viable options for dealing with
the situation of African refugees who, owing to prevailing circumstances in their
respective countries of origin, are unable to return home;
23. Also reaffirms that voluntary repatriation should not necessarily be
conditioned on the accomplishment of political solutions in the country of origin in
order not to impede the exercise of the refugees’ right to return, recognizes that the
voluntary repatriation and reintegration process is normally guided by the
conditions in the country of origin, in particular that voluntary repatriation can be
accomplished in conditions of safety and dignity, and urges the High Commissioner
to promote sustainable return through the development of durable and lasting
solutions, particularly in protracted refugee situations;
24. Calls upon the international donor community to provide financial and
material assistance that allows for the implementation of community-based
development programmes that benefit both refugees and host communities, as
appropriate, in agreement with host countries and consistent with humanitarian
objectives;
25. Appeals to the international community to respond positively, in the
spirit of solidarity and burden- and responsibility-sharing, to the third-country
resettlement needs of African refugees, notes in this regard the importance of using
resettlement strategically, as part of situation-specific comprehensive responses to
refugee situations, and to this end encourages States, the Office of the High
Commissioner and other relevant partners to make full use of the Multilateral
Framework of Understandings on Resettlement, 13 where appropriate;
12F
26. Calls upon the international donor community to provide material and
financial assistance for the implementation of programmes intended for the
_______________
13
Available from www.unhcr.org.
5