Press release
of September 24th, 1998
Meeting of the EU Interior Ministers on today’s Thursday
PRO ASYL demands an action plan on the
reception of Kosovo refugees
„Improve refugee protection, not dilute“!
Meeting of the EU Interior Ministers on today’s Thursday
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On the occasion of the meeting of the EU Ministers of the Interior on today’s Thursday the National Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL calls on the ministers to finally agree to an action plan on the reception of refugees from the Kosovo. „While the situation of ten thousands of refugees develops more and more to an humanitarian catastrophe and the first of about 30.000 children unprovided roaming about in the woods and living out in the open has already died, the Schengen States under German chairmanship draw up an action plan to fight influx from the Kosovo“, declared PRO ASYL spokesman Heiko Kauffmann. It would be cynical and shameful that the German Minister of the Interior defame the need and the protection wish of refugees as „an influx of illegal migration accompanied by criminality“. Mr. Kanther abuse defenceless and people seeking protection for his safety and sealing off mania of a Bulwark Europe.
„Refugee protection at European level must finally be coordinated and improved and not be diluted further“, said Kauffmann with a view of the Strategy Paper of the Austrian Presidency, which suggests suspension of the individual right to protection and amendment of the Geneva Refugee Convention.
PRO ASYL expects from the new Federal Parliament (Bundestag) and the new Federal Government formed after September 27th the implementation of basic protection requirements and minimum standards for refugees.
- The unrestricted validity of the Geneva Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights
- an effective legal protection during the asylum procedure
- better protection of especially vulnerable refugee groups, such as persecuted women, minors, victims of torture and traumatised civil war refugees.
