UN High Commissioner on Immigration wired a special communique to Ukraine in which he requests that eight citizens of Afghanistan not be deported and be granted refugee status.
The Afghans were en route to London. They were detained during a flight transfer at Boryspil for absence of documents and are currently living in the airport’s transit zone.
Two months earlier the UN commissioner expressed his “concern when Ukraine deported six citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo seeking refugee status in Ukraine”.
The UN letter is the first warning signal – they are putting pressure on us. Due to the absence of a Ukrainian law on illegal immigrants, Ukraine must either meet the demands of the West or show enmity towards migrants,” says First Deputy Chair of the VR Human Rights Committee Viktor Taran. “Europe, to which all such migrants are headed for, does not want to see them. Meanwhile, Ukraine is turning into a settling ground for migrant guests that later are tough to deport. When we are told that the demographic situation is starting to improve, nobody says this is thanks at the expense of Afghans, Vietnamese, Chinese and Africans.