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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 29 augusT 2017

Europe-Africa summit yields new approach to asylum claims

By SYLVIE CORBET financing, according to a
Associated Press top French diplomat. The
PARIS (AP) — The leaders official, in keeping with
of France, Germany, Italy French presidential policy,
and Spain agreed Mon- requested anonymity and
day on a new policy to would not provide details
grant asylum to vulnerable on the precise locations
migrants who apply for and procedures for the
protection while in Africa missions.
instead of their destination German Chancellor An-
countries. gela Merkel said European
At a Europe-Africa summit countries must clearly de-
in Paris aimed at finding fine which asylum-seekers
long-elusive solutions to il- have legitimate humani-
legal migration, the Euro- tarian needs and who is
pean leaders also agreed fleeing poverty. She called
to help the African coun- it “very, very important”
tries through which Europe- that the possibility of reset-
bound migrants usually tlement is coupled “with an
pass with border controls. end to illegal migration.”
French President Emman- The African leaders at the Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno, left, addresses the media during a joint press conference with
uel Macron, the summit’s summit — the prime minis- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and France’s President Emmanuel Macron after their
host, called it the most ter of Libya’s U.N.-backed meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The leaders of France, Ger-
effective and far-reach- government, Fayez Ser- many, Italy and Spain are meeting with African counterparts to find ways to curb illegal migration
ing migration meeting in raj, Chad’s President Idriss across the Mediterranean to European shores.
months, though he didn’t Deby Itno and Niger’s Pres- (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
say how much the new ident Mahamadou Issou-
measures would cost and fou — stressed that fighting Issoufou said that poverty is commerce or farming. southern border.
Helping chaotic Libya was Merkel said Europe also
what drives people to emi-
many specifics remained poverty must be a cen-
unclear. tral part of any migration grate to Europe and into a key part of Monday’s needs to “urgently” rethink
meetings, and Serraj asked its asylum system, which
trafficking, and that it’s im-
In a joint statement, the strategy. They asked for
four leaders acknowl- Europe’s help in giving hu- portant “to find alternatives for more support to fight requires migrants to seek
for the smugglers to leave migrant trafficking and in refugee status in the first
edged the need to initiate man smugglers legal ways
a process in Chad and Ni- of making money. criminal activity,” such as monitoring his country’s country they reach. q
ger that would lead to the
resettlement of “particu- Russia:
larly vulnerable migrants”
in Europe. 7 dead in clashes between police, militants in south
They announced they plan
to carry out “protection MAKHACHKALA, Russia that erupted after they re- when the officers stopped been a breeding ground
missions” in the African na- (AP) — Clashes between fused to surrender. Two law to refuel their vehicle at a for Islamic militants who
tions in cooperation with police and militants in the enforcement agents also gas station. A flag bearing mount regular attacks on
the United Nations’ refu- volatile southern province were killed, he said. symbols of the Islamic State police and officials.
gee and migration agen- of Dagestan killed three In a separate clash in the extremist group was found Some of the militants have
cies. law enforcement officers town of Kaspiysk on the Cas- at the site of the attack, he sworn allegiance to the
The process would allow and four suspected mili- pian Sea, two men armed said. The police spokesman Islamic State group, and
migrants to immigrate le- tants Monday, officials said. with knives attacked three said the teenage attack- hundreds of local residents
gally to Europe if they are The National Anti-terrorism police officers, killing one ers worked at a local fac- have joined the IS in Syria
on an eligibility list provided Committee’s spokesman, and wounding another be- tory, and one of them had and Iraq. Russia fought two
by the UN refugee agency Alexander Polyakov, said fore the third officer shot the been known to police for wars against separatists in
and registered with author- two suspects holed up in assailants to death, authori- his radical views. Dagestan the neighboring province
ities in Niger and Chad. a building in the town of ties said. Police spokesman is a mostly Muslim region of Chechnya after the
The pre-asylum centers Khasavyurt near Chechnya Ruslan Ibragimgadzhiyev between Chechnya and 1991 breakup of the Soviet
would receive European and died in a gunbattle said the attack occurred the Caspian Sea, and it has Union.q