World English News » Jordan http://worldenglishnews.com International English Language News Articles and Blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:33:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Denmark dumps Iraqi refugees in favour of Burmese http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/09/20/denmark-dumps-iraqi-refugees-in-favour-of-burmese/ http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/09/20/denmark-dumps-iraqi-refugees-in-favour-of-burmese/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:31:21 +0000 admin http://worldenglishnews.com/?p=645 The Danish immigration minister has made an about turn on her policy of accepting Iraqi refugees under the United Nations agreement. Just eight weeks ago Immigration Minister Birthe Ronn Hornbech announced that Denmark would be accepting a quota of refugees from the Arabic nation.

However, this week she reversed the decision, saying that priority would now be afforded to refugees from Burma residing in Malaysia. The minister also announced that Denmark would be refusing refugees from fellow Muslim countries Jordan and Syria.

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