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Article IV

For the purpose of organizing, co-ordinating and supervising the operations which should effect the voluntary, orderly and peaceful repatriation of Afghan refugees, there shall be set up mixed commissions in accordance with the established international practice. For the performance of their functions the members of the commissions and their staff shall be accorded the necessary facilities, and have access to the relevant areas within the territories of the High Contracting Parties.

Article V

With a view to the orderly movement of the returnees, the commissions shall

determine frontier crossing points and establish necessary transit centres.

They shall also establish all other modalities for the phased return of refugees, including registration and communication to the country of return of the names of refugees who express the wish to return.

Article VI

At the request of the Governments concerned, the United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees will co-operate and provide assistance in the

process of voluntary repatriation of refugees in accordance with the present

Agreement, Special agreements may be concluded for this purpose between

UNHCR and the High Contracting Parties.

Article VII

The present Agreement shall enter into force on 15 May 1988. At that time

the mixed commissions provided in Article IV shall be established and the

operations for the voluntary return of refugees under this Agreement shall

commence.

The arrangements set out in Articles IV and V above shall remain in effect for a period of eighteen months. After that period the High Contracting Parties shall review the results of the repatriation and, if necessary, consider any further arrangements that may be called for.

Article VIII

This Agreement is drawn up in the English, Pashtu and Urdu languages, all

texts being equally authentic. In case of any divergence of interpretation, the

English text shall prevail. Done in five original copies at Geneva this

fourteenth day of April 1988.

(Signed by Afghanistan and Pakistan).

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