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Switzerland: contract on "illegals"

01 March 1994

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On 4 February the Swiss authorities signed a transit-contract with Hungary to allow the return of "illegal" entrants. This follows the signing of a similar contract with Germany on 23 December (see Statewatch vol 4, no 1). This is the first contract between Switzerland and Hungary and will allow the Swiss government to deport refugees, especially from the former Yugoslavia, back to their "home country" via Hungary as a transit country. As there is no common border between these two countries the "illegal" entry of refugees is not the point of the contract. It allows Swiss authorities to deport any person who stayed for any period of time in Hungary and can therefore be sent back to or through Hungary to a third country. This will directly affect asylum seekers from Kosovo who are not recognised by Switzerland as refugees. Kosovons were being deported through Macedonia but they have recently cancelled the transit contract with Switzerland.

Komittee Schluss mit dem Schnuffelstaat, Bern, Switzerland.

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