Peter Dutton holds 'productive' talks in Cambodia over refugee resettlement

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Peter Dutton holds 'productive' talks in Cambodia over refugee resettlement

Immigration minister Peter Dutton spent his second day in Cambodia meeting the country’s top immigration official and holding “productive” talks with representatives from the International Organisation for Migration, who are resettling refugees previously detained on Nauru.

General Sok Phal, director general of Cambodia’s Department of Immigration, told Guardian Australia before his 6pm meeting with Dutton on Thursday that it was beyond his capacity to discuss the talks or the deal itself, referring questions to interior ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak, who could not be reached.

The IOM, which is not a party to the deal but contracted to assist in the resettlement of the refugees in Phnom Penh, said after the meeting that it would continue to provide “a robust suite of settlement services”.

“Those services will continue to include language training, cultural orientation, health insurance, social support, housing and employment counselling.”

As the first anniversary of the $55m memorandum of understanding approaches later this month, Dutton’s visit has seemingly sought to limit the fallout from comments made late last month by Sopheak, who claimed there were “no plans” for Cambodia to accept any more refugees from Nauru.

Dutton arrived unannounced on Wednesday, meeting with Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen and interior minister Sar Kheng, who inked the deal with Dutton’s predecessor, Scott Morrison, a year ago.

To date, just three Iranians and a Rohingya man have made the transition from detention on Nauru to life in a gated villa in a southern district in Phnom Penh, where they learn Khmer and are being prepared for integration into Cambodian society.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/11/peter-dutton-holds-productive-talks-in-cambodia-over-refugee-resettlement

-- The Guardian 2015-09-11

[shirtless]

What a dud deal , I hope no Australian ministers think they can run a business as poorly as they run the country, How much money has be wasted and how many refugees have been resettled , I heard one is now going back to his country of origin, That leaves 3 now still in Cambodia .

[Cats4ever]

Peter Dutton is a DUD.

The Cambodia deal iself was shameful morally and Oz has been scammed big time by some experienced operators.

[Mudcrab]

$55 million is cheap compared to the long term economic and social costs of having these people on mainland Australia.

Sends a powerful message to the freeloading,queue jumping, islamist imposters posing as genuine refugees.

You can bet your bottom dollar that there are many politicians in Europe who wished they had people of the calibre of Dutton and Morrison with the balls to tackle the problem head on without worrying about the criticism from the Twittering class.

Edited September 11, 2015 by Mudcrab

[Daniel Boon]

$55 million is cheap compared to the long term economic and social costs of having these people on mainland Australia.

Sends a powerful message to the freeloading,queue jumping, islamist imposters posing as genuine refugees.

You can bet your bottom dollar that there are many politicians in Europe who wished they had people of the calibre of Dutton and Morrison with the balls to tackle the problem head on without worrying about the criticism from the Twittering class.

utter bull excrement ... that was for 4 (yes four) people ... the poster has excrement for brains ...

the Tony Abbott / LNP government (Labor Party is no better) are spending billions of $'s having their corporate mates run prison camps off shore (where men, women and children are abused and raped by guards) ... and the dopey, low IQ easily manipulated voters who voted them in have no idea that they are being sold out (foreign workers replacing Australian workers); pensions and every other social welfare program, while foreign companies, who pay no tax and take profits off-shore can claim tax deductions and subsidies ... and penis cranium individuals (like mudcrab) don't know their rights are being eroded and they are next ...

this image went world wide ... why? because health officials who report this bashings, abuse, rape and attempted suicide (the youngest being aged 9) will do two years jail

and, Tony Abattoir knows his party will get decimated at the next election, and will now 'allow' 10,000 - 12,000 Syrians into Australia ...

remember the good old days 'when prevention was better than cure' ??? next week, Abbott has plans to bomb Syria some more ...

Edited September 12, 2015 by Daniel Boon