Copenhagen 19 August : The Danish government has announced the opening of the project office in Rwanda’s capital city Kigali in the context of the Nordic country’s plans to eventually establish an asylum centre in Rwanda, East African nation. “Denmark and Rwanda have a common goal to help more refugees more effectively than they are today, and to combat the risk of life-threatening and irregular migration, which includes over the Mediterranean,” Immigration Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek stated in the statement released by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday.
“Our common goal is to improve the inadequate asylum system and provide an equitable and long-term future for refugees and migrants.I am therefore thrilled that we’ll soon be able to establish an office in Rwanda,” he added.
As per the announcement, the office will also help Denmark to increase collaboration with Rwanda in specific areas of mutual concern, like good governance, climate change, as well as asylum and migration.
The office for the project, which is expected to enhance bilateral relations will operate in accordance with the two agreements of cooperation signed between the two countries in the year 2000: one concerning issues of asylum and migration and the other on dialogue and cooperation, according to the document.
The “outsourcing of migrants” was an idea of the Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.It was adopted into law by the Parliament in June 2021.
The law allows for asylum seekers to be transported to countries that are partners as their asylum requests are analyzed.
The plan is ensnared in controversy in the United States and internationally with some who claim that it violates the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and EU law.
Denmark however, is not subject to EU laws in this case because of the existence of a number of specific opt-out clauses that apply to Denmark’s participation in the EU.
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