© Inter-Parliamentary Union 2005 Published by the Inter-Parliamentary Union with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be produced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, via photocopying, recording, or otherwise – without the prior permission of the Inter-Parliamentary Union or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This publication is circulated subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade or otherwise be lent, sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher. ISBN 92-9142-262-2 (IPU) IPU Headquarters Inter-Parliamentary Union Chemin du Pommier 5 Case Postale 330 CH-1218 Le Grand Saconnex, Geneva Switzerland Tel: + 41 22 919 41 50 Fax: + 41 22 919 41 60 E-mail: postbox@mail.ipu.org Web site: www.ipu.org 68 Office of the Permanent Observer of the IPU to the UN United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees Inter-Parliamentary Union 220 East 42d Street Suite 3002 New York, N.Y. 10017 USA Tel: +1 212 557 58 80 Fax: +1 212 557 39 54 E-mail: ny-office@mail.ipu.org Case Postale 2500 1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Tel: +41-22-739-8111 Fax: +41-22-739-7353 Web site: www.unhcr.ch