Letter to UNHCR regarding the Refugee/Asylum Seeker Exchange Agreement between Australia and Malaysia

We are writing to express our concerns regarding the position of UNHCR on the pending refugee/asylum seeker agreement between Australia and Malaysia and to call on UNHCR not to endorse the agreement, regardless of undertakings the two parties might make in the final version.

António Guterres

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Case Postale 2500

CH-1211 Genève 2 Dépôt

Switzerland

 

June 13, 2011

Re: Refugee/Asylum Seeker Exchange Agreement between Australia and Malaysia

Dear Mr. High Commissioner,

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