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Sri Lankan asylum seekers came to Australia
Sydney, December 21, 2009 – Recent news from Sydney Morning Herald stated that the first Oceanic Viking’s asylum seekers just arrive in Australia. With the two granted resettlement in Australia 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers off the Australian Customs ship Oceanic Viking have left Indonesia and came to the land down under. However 15 of those people who refused to came have left Indonesia and will go to Canada.
The two being granted an Australian visa and who arrived yesterday were ”a vulnerable individual and his carer”. Chris Evans the spokesman for the Immigration Minister that for privacy reasons, the details in regards where the two live will kept.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had referred the two to Australia for resettlement and the pair had met the legal requirements for a visa grant under normal immigration processes, the spokesman said. In addition the 13 others had been processed and referred for possible resettlement in Canada.
”Canada has agreed to consider those with close family links to Canada and who meet Canadian resettlement criteria, including security requirements,” Senator Evans’s spokesman said.
The appointments for the Oceanic Viking group have drawn support from John Gibson, the president of the Refugee Council of Australia. ”This could form the basis for a broader regional and global resolution of the [people movement] issues confronting Indonesia and Australia,” Mr Gibson said yesterday.
Source:
smh.com.au
