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62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-INT . REFUGEE ORGANIZATION-DEC. 16, 1946 3051 plated in paragraph 8 (a) l o1 the report of the Third Com- mittee of the General Assembly as adopted by the Assembly or 12 February 1946. (iii) in the case of persons fall- ing within the category men- tioned in section A, paragraphs 1 (a) and 1 (c) compelling family reasons arising out of previous persecution, or, compelling rea- sons of infirmity or illness. (b) The following shall nor- mally be considered "adequate information": information re- garding conditions in the coun- tries of nationality of the refugees and displaced persons concerned, communicated to them directly by representatives of the Gov- ernments of these countries, who shall be given every facility for visiting camps and assembly centres of refugees and displaced persons in order to place such information before them. 2. In the case of all refugees falling within the terms of Section A paragraph 1 (b) of this Annex, persons will become the concern of the Organization in the sense of the resolution adopted by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on 16 Febru- ary 1946, so long as the Falangist regime in Spain continues. Should that regime be replaced by a democratic regime they will have to produce valid objections against returning to Spain corresponding I Paragraph8 (a) "In answering the representative of Belgium, the Chairman stated that it was implied that the international body would judge what were, or what were not, 'valid objections'; and that such objections clearly might be of a political nature." [Footnote in the original.] f to those indicated in paragraph - 1 (a) of this section. L SECTION D-CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH REFUGEES AND DIS- PLACED PERSONS WILL CEASE TO BE THE CONCERN OF THE ORGANIZATION Refugees or displaced persons will cease to be the concern of the Organization: (a) when they have returned to the countries of their nation- ality in United Nations terri- tory, unless their former habit- ual residence to which they wish to return is outside their country of nationality; or (b) when they have acquired a new nationality; or (c) when they have, in the determination of the Organiza- tion become otherwise firmly established; or (d) when they have unreason- ably refused to accept the proposals of the Organization for their re-settlement or repatria- tion; or (e) when they are making no substantial effort towards earn- ing their living when it is possible for them to do so, or when they are exploiting the assistance of the Organization. PART II Persons who will not be the concern of the Organization. 1. War criminals, quislings and traitors. 2. Any other persons who can be shown: (a) to have assisted the enemy in persecuting civil popu- lations of countries, Members of the United Nations; or Ante, p. 3049.