No UN-sponsored refugee agency was established to help the refugees. Instead, with some international help, but mostly out of its own resources, the Republic of Cyprus - a small, then not very prosperous country that was devastated by war - launched a re-settlement and rehabilitation program as a national project.
没有任何联合国难民机构为难民提供援助。相反，弱小、贫困的塞浦路斯共和国刚刚受过战争的蹂躏，就在国际社会有限的援助下，依靠自身的力量开展了全国范围内的难民重新安置计划。政府为修建房屋发放贷款。很多情况下，难民们都自力更生建造新居。