The problem of refugees displaced during the years of conflict in the country persisted.

There are inter agency working groups on the return and rehabilitation of the displaced, on education, and on the environment.

Further assistance has been provided for the formulation and development of socio economic development programmes for the displaced.

Newly displaced persons arriving in the outskirts of Monrovia benefited from emergency distributions.

Those figures alone provide a very clear answer , but don't forget to add to them the hundreds of thousands displaced and the billions of dollars of damages inflicted on the country.

In December 1992, Parliament approved the creation of both the Ministry of the Displaced and the Central Fund for the Displaced.

The beneficiaries of the project are essentially internally displaced persons and low income persons impoverished by the civil war and its consequences.

Over the past year, UNRWA has been able to spend about US 0.5 million on assistance to the displaced.

Countries which view this phenomenon as being more prevalent among immigrant communities take action to combat them within the context of integration policies.

The fate of displaced families was a matter of growing concern for the Agency as problems associated with the rehousing of displaced refugees became increasingly complex.

The Government continued its policy of addressing the problem of persons displaced by the years of conflict, including facilitating the return to the lawful owners of property occupied by displaced persons.

Under PIP, UNRWA received 3.66 million in contributions for projects in Lebanon, mainly for rehousing displaced persons and for shelter rehabilitation.

Many of the displaced were squatting on previously abandoned property being reclaimed by lawful owners or were living in makeshift huts on wasteland.

The team emphasized the importance of appropriate security arrangements, repatriation of refugees and resettlement of displaced persons, voter registration and boundary demarcation as prerequisites for elections.

18. A particularly important issue concerns the return and reintegration of displaced persons (about 70,000 families or 500,000 persons).

Several inter agency and sectoral missions took place throughout the reporting period, the most important of these being in the areas of agriculture, education, resettlement of the displaced, statistics and labour.

The urgent need to rehouse displaced Palestinians in Lebanon was recognized by the Multilateral Working Group on Refugees which urged donor countries to support UNRWA apos s rehousing efforts.

The Office of the United Nations Coordinator, in cooperation with UNDP, is expected to support the Minister for the Displaced with his fund raising efforts.

68. In the area of social reconstruction, UNDP, in cooperation with UNV and UNCHS, started implementing a programme for the reintegration of displaced persons.

58. In the area of social reconstruction, as a first step in late 1992 UNDP assisted the Government in holding a national conference on the displaced.

85. In July 1993, UNHCR contributed US 100,000 from its Emergency Fund to assist the people displaced as a result of military activities in the south of the country.

It refers to displaced residents who are caught in the cross fire between lawless elements and the military and have no choice but to flee from their homes to avoid being sandwiched in the battle.

For displaced families, UNRWA has extended its environmental health services on an ad hoc basis to some sites where the situation called for urgent action, such as the abandoned Gaza and Makassad hospitals where many displaced refugees are living.

To further enhance cooperation, UNAMI held a series of meetings with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Migration and Displacement, the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, the Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Humanitarian Aid and Cooperation, and other representatives in the Government of Iraq.

On this occasion, allow me to extend the solidarity of the members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle for the establishment of an independent State, with Al Quds Al Sharif as its capital, and for the return of displaced Palestinians to their homes and properties.

Principal recommendations included the establishment of a national council as well as the establishment of a central fund the full restoration of the right of the displaced to return to their homes and to reclaim their property the establishment of arbitration committees to settle differences and rebuild confidence the full reconstruction of destroyed villages and the priority of implementing a housing loan programme.

69. Providing adequate housing for the 6,000 Palestinian families displaced by the years of fighting in Lebanon has become a matter of growing urgency as the return of relative stability has allowed the Government to turn its attention to the problem of displaced Lebanese.