Our opinion of safe country is that you may designate a safe country but it shouldn't be an absolute designation, that within any country there could be reasons and there could be populations at risk. The designation of safe country should be an indicator to a reviewing officer that a political claim for asylum by someone from the United Kingdom, for example, would simply be spurious, whereas a claim by an individual from the United Kingdom who might be the spouse of a police officer and who claims to be battered wouldn't be spurious.
