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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. 5 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 7 that law as such can never at any time translate reality into law.

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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 situation where people if not totally and automatically and fully 18 qualifying under the '51 convention, nevertheless leave for a

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combination of factors which have to do with politics, with violence, with pressure of any sort including economic pressure as a result of these two factors.

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So that here, as I said, and to be quite precise, what is 24 very much important also is when one looks at every given situation

and tries to find out the main reason why people are leaving and, as I said, even if it is not always easy to have clear cut answers, clear 27 cut definitions, what is going on and whenever UNHCR does intervene it 28 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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QUESTION:

Yes.

Why did you choose to see the government

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