The government has also been in dialogue with Egypt about a new asylum system.
Jyllands-Posten writes this on the basis of access to documents.
According to the newspaper, they show that the Danish top diplomat Anders Tang Friborg in November 2020 was in Cairo, Egypt’s capital.
It was he “in order to advance the government’s ambition for a just and humane asylum system”, a document states. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, his job is to “open doors for reception centers outside the EU”.
The top diplomat discussed the asylum plans with Egypt’s deputy foreign minister.
According to Jyllands-Posten, it is now clear that the government has been talking about an asylum system with four countries in Africa. This applies to Tunisia, Ethiopia, Rwanda and thus also Egypt.
The Minister for Immigration and Integration Affairs, Mattias Tesfaye (SocDem), has so far kept the information close to his body when it comes to how the plan to set up reception centers for refugees abroad is to be implemented.
During a consultation on Tuesday, he said that Denmark has a dialogue with five to ten countries about those plans. He does not want to name the countries.
He also elaborated that a country that may have to house a Danish reception center must respect human rights, but does not necessarily have to be democratic, “as we imagine it.”
Even before the election, the government said that it wanted a fundamental change in the asylum system, where asylum treatment takes place outside Denmark’s borders.
But since then, it has not come closer to public about which countries might be interested in housing refugees, but their case is being processed.
Source: The Nordic Page