Commends the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and his staff for the dedicated and efficient manner in which they discharge their responsibilities and pays tribute to the four staff members who lost their lives in the course of their duties during the past year;
2
Strongly reaffirms the fundamental nature of the High Commissioner's function to provide international protection and the need for Governments to continue to co-operate fully with his Office in order to facilitate the effective exercise of this function, in particular by acceding to and implementing the relevant international and regional refugee instruments and by scrupulously observing the principies of asylum and non-refoulement;
3
Appeals to ali States that have not yet become parties to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of R,efugees to consider acceding to them in order to enhance their universal character;
4
Condemns ali violations of the rights and safety of refugees and asylum-seekers, in particular those perpetrated by military or armed attacks against refugee camps and settlements and other forros of brutality and the failure to rescue asylum-seekers in distress at sea;
5
Welcomes the fact that arrangements introduced by the High Commissioner have increased significantly the rescue of asylum-seekers in distress at sea and that preven- General Assembly-Forty-first Sessi~~ tive measures have resulted in a decline in the number of refugee boats attacked by pirates;
Urgesali States, in co-operation with the Office of the High Commissioner and other competent international bodies, to take ali measures necessary to ensure the safety of refugees and asylum-seekers;
7
Notes with deep concern that large numbers of refugees and asylum-seekers in different areas ofthe world are currently in detention or subject to similar restrictive measures and welcomes the conclusions on this subject
adopted by the Executive Committee ofthe Programme of the High Commissioner at its thirty-seventh session;98 8.
88 Repon of che World Co11jáe11ce to Review and Appraise che Achievements of the United Natio11.1 Decade .fur Womcn: t:quality. Devdopment and Peaa. Nwrobi, 15-26 Julv ¡9¡¡5 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.85.IV. IO)
