UNHCR Activities in the Republic of Belarus in 1992 - 1995 (Andrey Selivanov)

Раздел - "Международные отношения"UNHCR's presence in Belarus, as indeed in all post-soviet countries, was established in the beginning of the1990s. For various reasons, the USSR had remained outside the international refugee protection system. As UNHCR began to develop a strategy for its involvement in the post-Soviet region in the spring of 1992, this U N refugee agency sent its first fact-finding mission to Belarus. In general, the UNHCR's activities in Belarus in 1992—1995 indicated the efforts in creating organizational and technical potential of the state to settle the problems of refugees and rendering aid to refugees themselves through the framework of the Belarusian Red Cross despite the fact that this society itself acted through the U N Office in the Republic of Belarus. Belarus was given sufficient attention to by the UNHCR which resulted in the expansion of contacts and eventually in opening in 1995 of the UNHCR Liason Office in the Republic of Belarus