Report of the International Refugee Organization on resettlement of non-repatriable refugees and displaced persons Resolution of 9 March 1949 (document E/1251)

E/RES/208 (VIII)

The Economic and Social Council,

Notes the report submitted by the International Refugee Organization¹ in implementation of Council resolution 157 (VII);

Approves the efforts made so far by the IRO to extend the resettlement of refugees in family units;

Stresses the necessity for continuing such efforts, through negotiations with countries receiving displaced persons; and

Requests receiving countries to examine sympathetically every possibility:

(a) Of still further broadening their definition of the family unit when drawing up their resettlement programmes;

(b) Of admitting a greater proportion of intellectual refugees and of assisting in their professional readaptation where necessary

1 See document E/1092.