Artikel 2

The Netherlands Government:
(a) Approves the adoption of this annuity scheme to provide supplementary assistance, on a life-time basis, to the forty refugees referred to in Article 1.
(b) Agrees to accept these refugees as permanent residents of the Netherlands, that is to say, as aliens who have been granted a permit of residence in the Netherlands for an indefinite period and who are not subject to measures of expulsion, exclusively on the ground of indigency.
(c) Agrees to grant these refugees as far as possible (especially with respect to public relief and assistance and social security) a legal status as envisaged within the framework of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as prepared by the United Nations.
(d) Agrees to permit grants of public assistance, as needed by this group, without requiring deductions of the supplementary amounts provided by the annuities under this policy.
(e) Agrees to the principle of direct payment of the annuities to the refugees concerned.