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When a refugee expresses the desire to return to his home country - and any refugee is at any time perfectly free to do so - he "re-avails" himself of the protection of his national authorities and is therefore no longer a refugee.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Nobel Lecture 1954
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