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Last flight from Syria
Today, we expect the arrival of around 180 Iraqi refugees from Syria who will be admitted by the German authorities on the basis of an admission program adopted in 2008. With this act of admission Germany complies with its quota of approximately 2.500 admitted vulnerable people. The refugees are mainly members of religious minorities, children
Today, we expect the arrival of around 180 Iraqi refugees from Syria who will be admitted by the German authorities on the basis of an admission program adopted in 2008. With this act of admission Germany complies with its quota of approximately 2.500 admitted vulnerable people. The refugees are mainly members of religious minorities, children and young people as well as people with relatives living in Germany.
The EU Ministers of the Interior agreed in 2008 to admit about 10.000 especially vulnerable refugees from Iraq, but until today only 3.300–4.000 individuals received the authorization to be admitted by a member state of the EU. This example shows that the European solidarity concerning Iraqi refugees does not work at all. A continuous resettlement program for the admission of refugees is urgently needed. Binding annual quotas are needed instead of single actions that do not really relieve the situation on site.
Given the situation in the regions of origin with more than a million refugees, the admission of 2.500 people by Germany remains a drop in the ocean. PRO ASYL has therefore initiated an E‑Mailing in February 2010: “Taking Responsibility – Admit Refugees”. It requests the Minister of the Interior – Thomas de Maizière – to admit more Iraqi refugees from Syria, Jordan and Turkey and to join the resettlement program of the United Nations which obliges the participating states to annually admit a relevant number of refugees. More than 3.000 supporters signed the appeal.