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the 51 this criteria of violence. This being said, it is true that
we cannot consider that criteria for the other country other than the
African ones as being binding since this criteria has not been formally
and legally introduced in the '51 convention or in the addendum in '67.
But even if international law is fundamental when it comes to indicate
in each situation from which base we do start, it is also very true
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that I am always very much interested to have government based on the
very humanitarian principles underlying the '51 condition, do accept in fulfillment of this principle and in a purely humanitarian spirit
to take into account new situation or new reason whereby people
actually are leaving their countries.
This being said I think it is also important for everyone to come to some consensus and precisely not to mix the concept of economic migrant which I think is also a very clear one with other 17 situation where people if not totally and automatically and fully 18 qualifying under the '51 convention, nevertheless leave for a
combination of factors which have to do with politics, with violence. with pressure of any sort including economic pressure as a result of
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clear even if it is not always easy to have clear cut answers, cut definitions, what is going on and whenever UNHCR does intervene it is certainly not in response to economic migrants moving out of the
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QUESTION:
(by Jane Hutcheon from ATV News)
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Yes.
QUESTION:
Why did you choose to see the government
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