Most of the missions you refer to are ones where we did not have any visa offices. Therefore, there were no major consequences. However, members of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration as well as other parties have asked a lot of questions concerning our ability to process claims in Abidjan over the last few years, and with good reason.
Given the political situation in Côte d'Ivoire, we closed our embassy three times over the last two years. We were experiencing operational problems as well.
After having studied the problem, we transferred responsibility to the Congo, where there are a lot of refugee camps, and family reunification camps. We also transferred responsibility to our office in Nairobi, which is better equipped and has excellent expertise on refugees. We are currently taking necessary measures to mitigate the problems in Abidjan.