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September respectively calling on them to cease issuing transit visas to persons without a valid visa for their destination. would be appropriate for the Home Secretary to mention the GDR announcement and congratulate Zimmermann on what, it is hoped, is a successful resolution of the Berlin aspect of the problem.
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4. Prior to the GDR announcement, Chancellor Kohl announced on 27 August a series of domestic measures, including fines for airlines which bring asylum seekers and tighter procedures for processing applications, designed to show that the government was taking action. Though the closing of the Berlin loophole should ease the pressure, the flow of asylum seekers into the FRG via other routes is likely to continue, albeit at a reduced level. Government will wish to pursue the problem, as Kohl had earlier announced, in the context of work on harmonisation of alien and asylum laws and practices in the Community (and the Council of Europe). Zimmermann (and the CSU) appear to hope that the FRG will thereby be forced to make its rules and practice stricter; but this
by approach is not fully shared by the CDU, still less the FDP or the
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