{"id":86356,"date":"2017-02-06T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=86356"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:51:14","slug":"managing-national-borders-cannot-be-based-on-any-form-of-discrimination-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/02\/managing-national-borders-cannot-be-based-on-any-form-of-discrimination-un-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing National Borders \u2018Cannot Be Based on Any Form of Discrimination\u2019 \u2013 UN Chief Guterres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are entitled to protection, United Nations Secretary-General<\/a> Ant\u00f3nio Guterres on 31 Jan 2017 said, expressing concern at decisions around the world that have undermined the integrity of the international refugee protection regime.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres.
Photo: World Economic Forum\/Boris Baldinger (file)<\/p><\/div>\n

1 Feb 2017 – <\/em>\u201cRefugees fleeing conflict and persecution are finding more and more borders closed and increasingly restricted access to the protection they need and are entitled to receive, according to international refugee law,\u201d Guterres said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The UN chief made a particular mention of Ethiopia, the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, that, he noted \u201cfor decades has been keeping its borders open to hundreds of thousands of refugees from its neighbours, many times in dramatic security situations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further stating that countries have the right and the obligation, to responsibly manage their borders to avoid infiltration by members of terrorist organizations, Guterres cautioned that this cannot be based on any form of discrimination related to religion, ethnicity or nationality, noting that doing so \u201cis against the fundamental principles and values on which our societies are based.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also warned that it could \u201ctrigger widespread anxiety and anger that may facilitate the propaganda of the very terrorist organizations we all want to fight against\u201d and that \u201cblind measures, not based on solid intelligence, tend to be ineffective as they risk being bypassed by what are today sophisticated global terrorist movements.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the start of the regular noon-briefing at UN Headquarters, Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric said Guterres is currently on his way back to New York from the African Union Summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and he had had the opportunity to express his disagreement with the United States Executive Order on refugees.<\/p>\n

The statement follows President Donald Trump\u2019s signing last Friday of an Executive Order that, among things, suspends the US refugee programme for 120 days and, according to the media, bars entry of refugees from several mostly Muslim countries, including Syria, until further notice.<\/p>\n

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Source: UN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 human-wrongs-watch.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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