® SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY 5. Undertake to put in place modalities to determine refugee status of persons seeking asylum in a fair and efficient manner, and to ensure that those who do not need or deserve international protection do not abuse the humanitarian institution of asylum; 6. Appeal to the international community and co-operating partners to assist in ensuring that the social and economic structures, community services, and the environment of host countries or communities are not unduly stretched as a result of having to host refugees; 7. Undertake to respond effectively to situations which may contribute to deterioration in security, law and order in the refugee-hosting areas through, inter alia, isolating and disarming individuals or groups among the refugee populations who may be armed and threatening the lives of innocent refugees, local citizens, and humanitarian personnel, or engaging in other criminal acts; 8. Further undertake to trace and impound for safe custody or destruction, dangerous weapons circulating or hidden, particularly in refugee-hosting areas; 9. Undertake to adopt measures, individually and collectively, to address the issues of xenophobia towards refugees, irregular movement, return of unsuccessful asylum seekers and (burden sharing2 )through, among other means, harmonisation of procedures and criteria for the protection and provision of material and social support to refugees within our individual countries; 10. Encourage voluntary repatriation of refugees to their countries of origin whenever feasible, as the best solution to the problem of refugees, in keeping with the 1969 OAU Convention, which calls upon Governments of asylum and Governments of origin to create conducive conditions for the return home of refugees in safety and dignity; 11. Call upon the international community to provide assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the social and economic infrastructures, including clearance of mines and other munitions, in the areas of return so that conditions for successful repatriation are created; 12. Call upon the Member States, in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to provide durable solutions for those refugees for whom voluntary repatriation is not possible through local integration and resettlement; 13. Call upon members of the international community, and UNHCR in particular, to provide technical support to the governments in the SADC Region, including in capacity building and capacity sustaining. Declaration on Refugee Protection -4