Draft Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia

A/CONF.2/16

Amendment to Article 1, paragraph A

Substitute the following text:

"For the purposes of the present Convention the term "refugee" shall apply to any person who, as a result of persecution for defending the principles of democracy, national liberty, freedom of cultural and scientific work, political and religious opinions, or on account of his nationality or race, or owing to the upheavals caused by the war or to other events giving rise to similar upheavals, has been forced to leave the state of which he is a national, or in which he was domiciled, and had sought refuge and protection in one of the States signatories to the present Convention."