16 August 1983
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST
Offers by Member States of grants and scholarships for higher education, including vocational training, for the Palestine refugees
Report of the Secretary-General
1. The present report, which deals with offers by Member States and United Nations agencies of grants and scholarships for higher education for Palestine refugees, is submitted to the General Assembly in pursuance of paragraph 8 of its resolution 37/120 D of 16 December 1982.
2. The report includes the substance of responses by Member States and United Nations agencies to the appeal contained in that resolution, together with references to further actions taken by Member States and specialized agencies in response to the appeal contained in General Assembly resolutions 32/90 F of 13 December 1977, 33/112 C of 18 December 1978, 34/52 C of 23 November 1979, 35/13 B of 3 November 1980 and 36/146 H of 12 February 1982. By those resolutions, the Assembly appealed to all States, specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations to make special allocations, scholarships and grants to Palestine refugees, and invited the relevant United Nations agencies to continue, within their respective spheres of competence, to expand assistance for higher education to Palestine refugee students. The Assembly requested the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA) to act as recipient and trustee for such special allocations and scholarships and to award them to qualified refugee candidates.
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Document Type: Report, Secretary-General Report
Document Sources: Secretary-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA)
Subject: Assistance, Education and culture, Refugees and displaced persons
Publication Date: 16/08/1983