PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
February 3, 1999
Not give way to cheap propaganda
PRO ASYL demands generous ruling of old cases
Planned criteria for exclusion unacceptable
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PRO ASYL demands generous ruling of old cases
Planned criteria for exclusion unacceptable
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In view of the forthcoming meeting of the Ministers of the Interior demands the Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL a generous ruling of old cases. It would be completely unacceptable, that the Ministers of the Interior planned to exclude generally refugees from the former Yugoslavia (particularly Kosovo Albanians and Bosnians) and other countries of origin from the ruling of old cases. PRO ASYL fears, that due to the exclusion of the above mentioned groups, a deadline far reaching in the past and more restrictive criteria, as for example the cover of livelihood, the ruling of old cases provided for in the coalition agreement would be structured in a way, that could be largely useless.
The planned ruling of old cases must give persons affected a real chance, to earn their living within a transition period by themselves. It would be dishonest, to blame refugees who meet the other criteria of a humanitarian ruling of old cases for their need of social welfare aid, after excluding them for years from employment by short-term suspensions of deportation and the restrictive practice of granting a work permit .
PRO ASYL appeals at the Ministers of the Interior of the Federation and the Federal States, not to give way to cheap xenophobe propaganda. If people have been living for five years or longer in Germany, it would be unreasonable under humanitarian and social points of view, to make them leave the country, said Günter Burkhardt, general secretary of PRO ASYL. A deportation would be impossible in many cases in near future at all, too.
