PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
May 10, 1999
Kosovo-refugees: Order of the Interior Ministry
„Tricks at the expense of refugees“
As long as NATO bombing is going on,
there are no decisions in asylum matters by the
Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees
PRO ASYL: immediate cancellation of decision stop
- Kosovo-Flüchtlinge: BMI-Anweisung „Trickserei zu Lasten der Flüchtlinge
„Solange die NATO bombt, gibt es keine Asylentscheidungen beim Bundesamt
PRO ASYL: Entscheidungsstopp sofort aufheben - Kosovo-refugees: Order of the Interior Ministry „Tricks at the expense of refugees“
As long as NATO bombing is going on, there are no decisions in asylum matters by the Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees
PRO ASYL: immediate cancellation of decision stop
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The Federal Office for the Recognition of Foreign Refugees doesn’t for the time being decide on asylum applications of refugees from Kosovo and other parts of Yugoslavia due to an instruction of the Federal Minister of the Interior. If claims are decided already notifications aren’t delivered any more. In a letter of the competent department of the Federal Office from March 24 it is said: „With a view to the air-strikes of the NATO we ask for the time being all Yugoslavia cases ( i.e. Kosovo and the remaining parts of Yugoslavia) not to be decided. Deliveries of notifications are to be stopped immediately. This applies also to follow-up applications…
PRO ASYL criticises the decision of the Federal Minister of the Interior being behind it and its implementation as a „trick at the expense of refugees“. The assertion that were was a lack of certain information to enable deciding on applications would be disproved by the current decision practice of numerous Administrative Courts. These have gone over to recognising within the last weeks, Kosovo-Albanians , whose appeals were pending, as a refugee group, due to a very clear situation, which could be seen from the mass media. Refugees from Kosovo are not victims of war, but must be seen as persecuted and expelled persons who have to be recognised as having refugee status in the meaning of the 1951 Geneva Convention. It is obvious, that the FR Yugoslavia plans and pursues a complete expulsion of all ethnic Albanians from Kosovo.
PRO ASYL-spokesperson Heiko Kauffmann: „No asylum, as long as bombing is going on: That’s the message of Schily – a writing on the wall for the remaining stocks of Asylum Law“.
