Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:07:39 -0700
http://www.tesfanews.net/british-foreign-and-home-office-delegation-in-asmara/
By *TesfaNews*,
*FOLLOWING* last week’s EU – Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative
<http://www.tesfanews.net/fm-osman-saleh-in-rome-for-eu-horn-of-africa-migration-conference/>
Ministerial
Conference in Rome, a delegation from the British Foreign and Home Offices
have arrived in Asmara for talks with the Eritrean government on
multi-layered facets of migration and human trafficking.
It was not yet confirmed whether the delegations also came to look into
a Denmark Immigration Service (DIS) style assessment on the alleged human
rights situations in the country besides having a discussion
on migration and human trafficking.
A three week fact-finding mission and a *report
<http://www.nyidanmark.dk/NR/rdonlyres/B28905F5-5C3F-409B-8A22-0DF0DACBDAEF/0/EritreareportEndeligversion.pdf>*
<http://www.nyidanmark.dk/NR/rdonlyres/B28905F5-5C3F-409B-8A22-0DF0DACBDAEF/0/EritreareportEndeligversion.pdf>on
Eritrea by DIS made headlines last week after it concludes that ‘*allegations
of Human Rights in the country do not harmonize with the reality on the
ground*.’
The report also adds, ‘*hardly anyone leaves Eritrea for political reasons
…. as almost 99.9% of all Eritrean asylum seekers in Europe are Economic
Refugees*.’
Read more at
http://www.tesfanews.net/british-foreign-and-home-office-delegation-in-asmara/#ZjEI36CqahQ6Hfta.99
Ibrahim I. Suliman
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