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Article: OAU Exhibition to Commemorate Africa Refugee Day
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 18, 1996
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Origin Countries of refugees in Africa should address the causes
of displacement of people and find ways for their voluntary
repatriation, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) leader said
here today.
The message was read at the opening of an arts exhibition
organized by the OAU Secretariat in connection with the Africa
Refugee Day which falls on June 20, 1996.
OAU Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim urged African countries
and the international community to make greater efforts in solving
the continental refugee problem.
"Only through greater respect of human rights, national
reconciliation, social and economic progress and the ...