§ 45. Mr. Baldryasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will report on the second international conference on assistance to refugees in Africa in Geneva.
§ Mr. RaisonI attended ICARA II on 10 July. There was wide agreement on the need to tackle the root causes of refugee flows and to observe humanitarian principles in dealing with them. Over US $100 million was pledged and interest was shown in one-third of the 128 infrastructure projects submitted by individual African countries of asylum. I offered an additional £5 million to be spent by British and international voluntary agencies on such refugee-related development projects.