Australia defends sending refugees to Cambodia
Australia’s Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has defended the government’s plan to transfer refugees to Cambodia, saying the programme would start small but be a long-term arrangement.
Under Canberra’s hardline immigration policy, asylum-seekers who arrive on boats are denied resettlement in Australia and sent to Papua New Guinea and the Pacific state of Nauru, even if they are genuine refugees. …
Morrison said it would be up to Cambodia to determine when it would accept the refugees and how many would come but that the plan could begin later this year.
He downplayed reports that Cambodia would only take a handful of refugees initially, saying Phnom Penh had made “a very strong commitment” in signing up to the arrangement. …
RTÉ News Staff
http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0927/648375-australia-cambodia/
