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Austria wants EU to set up 'deportation centres' for Afghans
Vienna maintains a hardline stance on migration
18 August, 16:35 (ANSA-AFP) - VIENNA, AUG 18 - Austria's interior minister
said Wednesday he would lobby the EU to help set up "deportation
centres" in countries neighbouring Afghanistan to take in
Afghans deported from Europe. Austria has insisted it wants to
continue to deport Afghans whose asylum claims have been
rejected or who have been found guilty of crimes and to
discourage refugees fleeing the Taliban's takeover of
Afghanistan to come to Europe. "It is important... that it
continues to be possible to deport violent asylum seekers or
refugees, so we need these deportation centres," Interior
Minister Karl Nehammer told reporters before meeting his EU
counterparts. Austria under conservative Sebastian Kurz has a
hardline stance on migration, at odds with the chancellor's
current coalition partner, the Greens. The Taliban seized Kabul
on Sunday, taking power again in Afghanistan after two decades
of war and sparking huge concerns globally about their brutal
human rights record. (ANSA-AFP).
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