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Citizenship and Immigration committee We are a little bit concerned about making migration part of your strict allocation criteria for your development or humanitarian aid, thereby linking migration policies and humanitarian issues and, as you said it rightly, supporting sustainable development goals linked to migrat
October 4th, 2018Committee meeting
Christian Friis Bach
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. I think it's very difficult to say how you can split up $100 million, but I think it's very important to understand that these solutions are closely connected. The ability to convince a country like Uganda to provide durable solutions and give refugees a piece of land, to m
October 4th, 2018Committee meeting
Christian Friis Bach
Citizenship and Immigration committee That is a good question. We work very closely with the UNHCR, but we have assisted Canada, actually, with the resettlement of Lebanese refugees and Syrian refugees. In Lebanon we assisted. We do believe in a good partnership. We do believe we can definitely significantly speed u
October 4th, 2018Committee meeting
Christian Friis Bach
Citizenship and Immigration committee This is, of course, where we need a very forceful protection response inside the camps. That is one of the issues we engage heavily in, ensuring that you have protection and monitoring by people who are consistently present in the camps, making sure that minorities or vulnerable
October 4th, 2018Committee meeting
Christian Friis Bach
Citizenship and Immigration committee I do agree. We can see that the major refugee-producing countries are all engaged in protracted crisis situations. Take South Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen as examples. The lack of the ability of the Security Council and world leaders to resolve and stop these conf
October 4th, 2018Committee meeting
Christian Friis Bach
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you very much. It's an honour to be able to address the committee. Thank you for this opportunity. I might not even use my 10 minutes, but I will say a few remarks on mixed migration and durable solutions. Let me first say that I was on the board of the International In
October 4th, 2018Committee meeting
Christian Friis Bach