PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
April 30, 1999
Kosovo refugees:
PRO ASYL proposes guidelines and demands for the reception and treatment of refugees from Kosovo
Political arguments after five weeks of war more and more implausible
- Kosovoflüchtlinge:
PRO ASYL legt Eckpunkte und Forderungen für die Aufnahme und Behandlung von Flüchtlingen aus dem Kosovo vor
Argumente der Politik nach fünf Wochen Krieg immer unglaubwürdiger - Kosovo refugees:
PRO ASYL proposes guidelines and demands for the reception and treatment of refugees from Kosovo
Political arguments after five weeks of war more and more implausible
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The Nation-wide Human Rights Association for Refugees PRO ASYL has proposed 12 guidelines and demands for the reception and treatment of refugees from Kosovo.
The spokesperson of PRO ASYL, Heiko Kauffmann, appealed insistently to the Federal Government, the Interior Ministers of the Federation and the Federal States and the parties represented in the Federal Parliament, to receive significantly more quota-refugees in view of the disastrous humanitarian and social situation of the refugees in Kosovo and neighbouring countries and to grant Kosovo-Albanian refugees already living in Germany a maximum of legal protection and certainty.
„After more than 5 weeks of war the political argumentation becomes more and more implausible; on the one hand protection and security of refugees is declared the supposed aim of the military action; on the other hand further reception of refugees is – together with other EU-States – is blocked despite urgent humanitarian requirements. At the same time it is missed to provide Kosovo-Albanian refugees, partly living in Germany already since long time, with necessary and possible legal certainty“, said Kauffmann.
A solid concept for the reception and treatment of refugees from Kosovo in Germany and other European countries should now take into account particularly, that a short-period solution of the problems is not thinkable by the duration and an the course of the war, the extent of persecution and expulsion and finally by the dimension of the destruction in Kosovo, making necessary a long-standing reconstruction and repatriation process…
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- Co-ordinated reception of refugees in the EU-States
and Germany
In view of the hopelessly overcrowded refugee camps in the region, the excessive demands for the neighbouring countries and the lack of perspective on short-term return of refugees should the German EU-Presidency support strongly a generous reception of more refugees in the EU. Germany also must declare its readiness for the reception of a higher quota. - Quota-refugees
To quota-refugees received by the Federal Republic of Germany according to § 32a Aliens Law is granted only a residence permit for a period of three months. This status doesn’t meet their situation in any way. Legal and social problems are resulting (week legal certainty, practical impossibility to get jobs, no family reunification, reduced medical care, reduced social welfare according to the Act on Benefits for Asylum seekers etc.).
The adequate instrument for the reception of the short-term evacuated quota-refugees is the „Law on Measures for Refugees received within the Framework of Humanitarian Relief“ from 1980. Persons received according to this law are granted full refugee status. This status of a quota-refugee can be revoked by a formal procedure in the case of cessation of the prerequisites.
