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Equal treatment of all asylum seekers
Provided that asylum has been fully restored, asylum seekers rescued ot
sea and stowaway should be treated in the same manner as all others arriving
www-on tire shores of asylum countriesThis would also eliminate what
could be called a fast track to resettlement and (be) seen as a loophole that
would weaken a comprehensive approach linking the elements of screening,
repatriation, and resettlement.Ship captains would be reassured that rescue at
sea would not be obstacles to the plying of their trade Broad dissemination
of the new policy regarding rescue at sea cases, oil rig arrivals, and
stowaways shall be the joint responsibility of all parties to the new
agreement.
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Access and Asylum
Upon learning of new arrivals, local authorities of asylum countries
shall immediately notify UNHCR, which will provide assistance and medical
attention as necessary, Preparations will then begin for the transfer of the
asylum seekers to a designated camp or holding facility to await screening.
The host country authorities and the UNHCR should endeavour to move the new
arrivals to a screening facility within thirty days.
The host countries shall grant the UNHCR right of access to all asylum
seekers from the moment the new arrivals enter their territories.
UNHCR will
continue to have access, following scrvening for refugee status, to those
individuals determined not to be refugees.
worked out jointly by the
Guidelines for access shall be
Ammand UNHCĤ.
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