KABUL (SW): Officials at the Ministry of Refugee and Repatriates said that the representatives of European Union have pledged that they would consider the asylum requests submitted by the Afghan refugee and would accept most of them.
Islamuddin Jurat, Spokesman for the Ministry, told Salam Watandar that after thorough study, only a small number of the asylum requests would be rejected.
He said that the European Union is obliged based on the Zeno Convention 1951, to consider Afghan immigrants’ cases.
Based on the agreement Afghanistan have signed with 9 European countries, these countries are bound not to expel four types of immigrants, children, families who are supported by a woman, crippled individuals, and the head of a family.
Jawed Faisal, Deputy Spokesman for Chief Executive Officer, said that the government’s leaders had a meeting with the EU’s delegations in Kabul on Wednesday where they pointed out that Afghanistan is not prepared to accommodate all the immigrants deported from the EU.
Recent reports released by the United Nations suggest that 46,000 more immigrants have made it to the European countries via Greece last month alone.
Hashmatullah Mahmudi, one of the immigrants who arrived in Europe last year, told Salam Watandar that the challenges Afghan immigrants are faced with have increased after President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani’s comments about accepting all the repatriated immigrants back. He said that Afghan immigrants have been deprived of assistances given to other immigrants.
President Ghani once said that Afghan immigrants would end-up washing dishes in Europe and that he want them back to their country.
Sweden announced three days ago that they would reject 60,000 to 70,000 immigrants.
Finland has also said that they would expel 20,000 Afghan and Iraqi immigrants.
The main reason behind this mass exodus is war and in security in countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. During 2015, thousands of asylum seekers from war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, left their countries to seek refuge abroad.
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