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Article: Burden of hosting refugees, chronic UNHCR budget shortages highlighted, as Third Committee continues discussion on refugees -- Part 1 of 2.
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- November 18, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-18 November 2002-UN: Burden of hosting refugees, chronic UNHCR budget shortages highlighted, as Third Committee continues discussion on refugees -- Part 1 of 2 (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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As the General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian, Cultural) continued its consideration of questions related to refugees and displaced persons in two meetings today, several delegations stressed the burden of hosting refugees and the associated "host-fatigue", as well as the chronic budget shortages of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), aggravating the suffering of uprooted ...