2024-04-15 09:05:33
Author: Elchin Alioglu
Source: Trend
London seems to have found a solution to the problem of migrants coming to Britain from the world’s poorest countries.
Official London will no longer deport the vast majority of illegal migrants to their countries of origin, i.e. their homelands. Those migrants will be sent to “countries in a worse situation than their homeland”.
According to information in the British media, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government intends to send illegal migrants to Botswana, Costa Rica, Cote D’Ivoire and Armenia.
“Britain has already started negotiations with these four countries that can accept illegal migrants to be sent from the kingdom. The documents obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain indicate that the negotiations are going on intensively,” the British media reports.
London has experience in sending illegal migrants to a third country: Britain signed a corresponding agreement with the Rwandan authorities two years ago.
Britain has been looking for suitable countries for a year and a half to direct the flow of migrants to be deported from the Kingdom.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was planning to sign agreements with Botswana, Costa Rica, Cote D’Ivoire and Armenia even last fall.
Some problems did not allow it.
Talks between London and Yerevan started in September of last year, during the visit of British Foreign Minister Leo Dockerty to Armenia.
Yerevan officials told him during the debate that they were “closely monitoring the situation” after the British parliament passed a bill to send illegal migrants to Rwanda.
Illegal migrants are sent to Britain in rubber boats by organized crime groups in various European countries. The price of a “seat” on such boats crossing the English Channel from France to Britain is approximately 10 thousand dollars.
Official London believes that the prospect of being deported to “poor, troubled countries” such as Armenia or Rwanda later on will not be attractive to Britain’s migrants from a number of countries, particularly Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
Many of these migrants cross illegally to Britain by boat from France.
British officials say in informal conversations that illegal migrants are less afraid of going to Costa Rica or Botswana than being sent to Armenia: “They consider Armenia the worst option.”
The British Foreign Office has ordered some countries in South America, including some countries, to send illegal migrants pouring into the country Paraguay, Peru, Brazil and Ecuador held talks with But the governments of these countries have not agreed to accept the flow of migrants.
Official London hereafter Cape Verde, Senegal, Tanzania and Sierra Leone he intends to negotiate with If agreements are not signed with Armenia and three other countries, if the discussions end in failure, contacts with the mentioned states will be initiated as a backup option.
Although Rwanda has signed the preliminary documents, the process has not yet started. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame last week to discuss the issue of migrant deportation.
As for the Armenian version, before London started direct contacts with Yerevan last September Morocco, Tunisia and Namibia had similar negotiations with But these countries did not agree to accept illegal migrants.
In addition, in parallel with Armenia Suriname and Belize there were also contacts with countries like
Those countries also refused London’s proposals.
According to information provided by the British Foreign Ministry, official Yerevan has already given its initial consent: “If agreements are signed with Armenia, we can start the process of deporting illegal migrants to Britain to this country in the amount of at least 290 million pounds.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that the flights that will transport illegal migrants to the airport in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, will start this spring.
The British Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) issued a statement saying that it hopes that the deportation of the first group of migrants from the country to a third country will take place by June.
One of the problems is finding an airline to carry out such a deportation process. So far, no airline in Britain has agreed to carry illegal migrants.
Another problem is political, ethnic, religious, etc. It is related to persons who claimed to be migrants by fleeing their countries due to persecution and real threats to their lives.
Rwanda has accepted such illegal migrants and refused to grant them political asylum. Moreover, no relevant agreements have been signed between Britain and Rwanda on extradition and co-operation between courts.
Official London has announced the initial conditions to avoid the repetition of the problems listed in the discussions with Yerevan.
Armenian authorities are still thinking.
Because the number of relocators and migrants in the country can cause serious concerns.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians, trying to avoid mobilization, turned to Armenia after the start of the military operations conducted by Russia in Ukraine.
In addition, there are currently tens of thousands of Indian citizens in Armenia. Hindus consider Yerevan to be an intermediate stage on their way to the European Union and the United States.
After signing the agreement with Britain, Armenia will become an illegal “migrant warehouse”.