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| Merkel says Afghans arriving in Germany would be returned | |
| 2015-12-04 | |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... has said that Afghans arriving in her country in pursuit of better economic circumstances would be returned.
Merkel has told media that Germany would support the creation of safe zones inside the country, to provide people who "live in areas of insecurity with a zone where security is high." At a joint news conference with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. in Berlin on Wednesday, Merkel said Germany would meet its humanitarian obligations for Afghans who are in serious danger because they worked for foreign forces such as the German army. "But where refugees come hoping for a better life -- and I know that this hope is big for many -- that is no reason to get asylum status or residency status here," according to Rooters, Merkel said, adding that in such cases people would be deported back home. Merkel stressed there was false information circulating in Afghanistan about migration to Germany and said the embassy was taking measures to ensure people knew the rumors were not true. President Ghani said people should understand that streets of Germany are not paved with gold. "We need to ... make sure that everybody understands the streets are not paved with gold," he said. This comes as around 150,000 Afghans have left Afghanistan to Europe this year with a high volume of them to Germany. | |
| Posted by:Fred |