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Rishi Sunak has said the current international system for dealing with refugees is not working. In a statement issued ahead of his attendance later today at the Council of Europe summit, he said:
Every single point on each route used by people traffickers to smuggle people across our continent represents another community struggling to deal with the human cost of this barbaric enterprise.
It is very clear that our current international system is not working, and our communities and the world’s most vulnerable people are paying the price.
We need to ensure we have an international legal system which allows sovereign countries to take the domestic steps necessary to help those most in need. That includes reform to the ECHR’s Rule 39 process to ensure proper transparency, greater accountability and ensuring decisions can be reconsidered.
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