Thank you.
The first part of your submission talks a lot about the designated country class. I want to talk about that, or ask you some questions about it, because you refer to the exercise of how the process will work as having “ill-defined criteria”. I wondered about that, because while you refer on page 6 to the United Nations Human Rights Council being in support of one of the recommendations you're moving toward, when it comes to the designated country, you're opposed to it. Abraham Abraham actually said at the standing committee that:
...[the] UNHCR does not oppose the introduction of a “designated” or “safe country [of] origin” list as long as this is used as a procedural tool to prioritize or accelerate examination of applications in carefully circumscribed situations, and not as an absolute bar.
I wondered why you use the UN to support part of your argument, but on the other hand, when it comes to designated countries, you're not prepared to support Abraham Abraham's position on it, nor to support the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and Finland, among a number of others that actually have the designated safe country.