Britain to keep 114 migrants on its Cyprus bases

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Britain to keep 114 migrants on its Cyprus bases

NICOSIA, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Britain will keep on one of its sovereign bases in Cyprus 114 migrants who came ashore last week at Akrotiri RAF base, reinforcing Prime Minister David Cameron's statement that it will not allow its Cyprus bases to become a new route of migration into Britain.

A spokesman for the British Bases in Cyprus said the migrants were taken today by buses from the Akrotiri Base next to the southern city of Limassol to "a temporary transit facility" at Britain's second base at Dhekelia close to the city of Larnaca.

The spokesman said the base at Dhekelia will provide more suitable accommodation, as the Akrotiri air base is used by RAF Tornados for their daily sorties against Islamic State forces in northern Iraq.

"The UK government has been clear that it will not allow a new migrant route to open up to the UK," the spokesman said in a statement, intoning Cameron's words.

Full story: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/28/c_134756410.htm

-- Xinhua 2015-10-28

[Humphrey Bear]

So these people have reached a safe haven, where there are rules already in place for their welfare, the possibility of their being able to work (provided there is work available) and the financial arrangements between the UK and Cyprus are agreed.

The Palestinians are economic migrants and should be returned to their homeland, but the Syrians are eligible for asylum and should be treated as such - within the rules already in place. Other nationalities, if any, should be treated on a case-by-case basis.

But the source of this story is Xinhua Press Agency, a Chinese-owned agency. How is it that they seem to report more on this story than the British press?

[Ulic]

Ship the ones who make it to the UK there as well until there cases have been decided.