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Germany: Deporting to continent of origin

01 July 1995

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The Federal Republic will in future deport refugees without identity papers to any state in their continent of origin willing to accept them. According to a report in the Tageszeitung newspaper (24.5.95), the Conference of Federal Interior Ministers this May created a working group specifically to investigate the logistics of this procedure. The report quotes the case of a Liberian refugee who was deported to Gambia because the Gambian Honorary Consul in Düsseldorf, Herr Becker, was prepared to issue a Gambian "emergency passport". The plans of the Interior Ministers' working group will however depend on the readiness of the states in the regions - mainly Africa and Asia - to accept refugees of uncertain nationality. Berlin Anti-racist information network, May/June update.

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