Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Hague
International Organization
Department/EZ
No. 8289
The Hague, 13th February 1951.
Sir,
I have the honour to refer to your Note of today, in which you were good enough to
inform me that the International Refugee Organization is desirous to see that arrangements
be concluded between the Netherlands Government and the International Refugee Organization
for the assistance to refugees under the mandate of the International Refugee Organization
and to their dependents and more specifically concerning the care and financial support,
as long as will prove to be necessary, of the thirteen refugees needing medical care,
and their eight dependents who are beneficiaries under guarantees of the following
Voluntary Agencies in the Netherlands:
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Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk (Foundation for Jewish Social Work),
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Genootschap der Vrienden (Society of Friends),
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Landelijk Inter-Kerkelijk Bureau voor Noodvoorziening (Committee of Interchurch Aid
and Service to Refugees).
These arrangements to be summarized as follows:
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1. the International Refugee Organization:
agrees to pay to the following Agencies in the Netherlands a single special grant
in Dutch guilders equivalent to the following amounts, stated in U.S. dollars:
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a) to the „Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk” (Foundation for Jewish Social Work),
$ 5600 (five thousand six hundred);
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b) to the „Genootschap der Vrienden” (Society of Friends), $ 2050 (two thousand and fifty);
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c) to the „Landelijk Inter-Kerkelijk Bureau voor Noodvoorziening” (Committee of Interchurch
Aid and Services to Refugees), $ 650 (six hundred and fifty),
these Agencies to be the sole judges of the use made of the sums paid in this way.
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2. the Netherlands Government:
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a) agree to accept these refugees as permanent residents of the Netherlands, that is
to say, as aliens who have been granted a permit of residence in the Netherlands for
an indefinite period and who are not subject to measures of expulsion, exclusively
on the ground of indigency;
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b) agree to grant these refugees as far as possible (especially with respect to public
relief and assistance and social security) a legal status as envisaged within the
framework of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees as prepared by the
United Nations;
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c) approve of the arrangement entered into by the International Refugee Organization
and the three Voluntary Agencies mentioned to provide supplementary assistance, as
long as will prove to be necessary, to the twenty-one refugees referred to in the
relevant guarantees of these Voluntary Agencies;
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d) approve of the principle of direct payment of the grants by the International Refugee
Organization to the Voluntary Agencies concerned;
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e) agree to permit grants of public assistance, as needed by this group, without requiring
deductions of the supplementary amounts provided by the Voluntary Agencies,
I have the honour to confirm the Netherlands Government's acceptance of these arrangements
and their concurrence in your suggestion that your Note, and the present Note in reply
thereto, should be regarded as constituting the agreement for these purposes.
Accept, Sir, the renewed assurance of my high consideration,
(s.) STIKKER,
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
To the Netherlands Representative
of the International Refugee Organization
The Hague.
