EC: resolution on Yugoslavia
01 January 1991
EC: resolution on Yugoslavia
actdoc September=1993
AD HOC GROUP IMMIGRATION
Copenhagen, 1 June 1993
Subject: Resolution on certain common guidelines as regards
the admission of particularly vulnerable persons
from the former Yugoslavia
The Ministers recorded their agreement on the above
Resolution.
RESOLUTION ON CERTAIN COMMON GUIDELINES
AS REGARDS THE ADMISSION OF PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE
GROUPS OF PERSONS FROM THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
THE MINISTERS OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
RESPONSIBLE FOR IMMIGRATION IN THE MEMBER STATES OF THE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, meeting in Copenhagen on 1 and 2 June
1993,
CONCERNED at the continuing humanitarian crisis in the former
Yugoslavia,
RECALLING the common position adopted by the European
Community and its Member States at the Geneva Conference of 29
July 1 992 organized by the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees,
RECALLING the conclusions of the European Council meeting held
on 11 and 12 December 1 992 in Edinburgh,
DECLARING their support for the work carried out both within
and outside the former Yugoslavia by the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees and by other humanitarian
organizations.
EMPHASISING that, in accordance with the approach of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees that protection
and assistance should wherever possible be provided in the
region of origin, they consider that displaced persons should
be helped to remain in safe areas situated as close as
possible to their homes, and that the efforts of the Member
States should be aimed at creating safe conditions for these
persons and sufficient funds for them to be able to remain in
these areas,
REAFFIRMING their willingness, in co-operation with the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to admit, according to
their possibilities, particularly vulnerable persons in order
to afford them temporary protection,
HAVE ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION:
1. Member States, in compliance with their national
procedures and laws, will take suitable measures for the
admittance, within the limits of the possibilities of
each Member State, of particularly vulnerable persons
from the former Yugoslavia in order to afford them
temporary protection.
These arrangements are especially intended to apply to:
(a) persons from the former Yugoslavia who:
- have been held in a prisoner-of-war or internment
camp and cannot otherwise be saved from a threat to
life or limb;
- are injured or seriously ill and for whom medical
treatment cannot be obtained locally;
- are under a direct threat to life or limb and whose
protection cannot otherwise be secured;
- have been subjected to sexual assault, provided that
there is no suitable means for assisting them in
safe areas situated as close as possible to their
homes;
(b) persons from the former Yugoslavia who have come directly
from combat zones within their borders and who cannot
return to their homes because of the conflict and human
rights abuses.
2. Member States will endeavour to administer such
arrangements on the basis of the overall objective that
persons from the former Yugoslavia who are admitted to
the Member States and given temporary protection are to
return to an area in the former Yugoslavia in which they
can live in safety as soon as the conditions in that area
make it possible to do so safely.
3. Each Member State will make every effort to take the
measures required to enable the persons concerned to stay
on its territory temporarily within the framework of the
general objective referred to in point 2.
To that end Member States will in particular ensure the
implementation of principles conducive to c