A number of European countries have announced that they will stop considering the applications of Syrian refugees seeking asylum.of "Armenpress"."Interfax" reports about this, referring to the publications of various European media.
According to The Telegraph's sources, the British authorities have made a decision to suspend consideration of Syrian refugee applications.
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs has suspended the adoption of decisions on requests for Syrian refugees until we assess the situation in Syria," the publication's source said.
According to The Telegraph, more than 6,500 Syrian refugees are currently awaiting a decision on their asylum claims.
The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), for its part, said that it is "closely following the situation in Syria" and does not rule out suspending decisions on asylum applications from people from Syria.
Germany, in turn, suspended decisions on asylum applications for Syrian refugees after Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad left the country, DPA reported, citing a representative of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
"The consideration of more than 47,000 applications has been suspended," the agency reports. Given the difficult situation in Syria, it is right that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has suspended decisions on asylum requests," German Interior Minister Nancy Feser wrote on the X social network.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehamer announced on the X social network that "all asylum processes for Syrian citizens will be stopped." "After the fall of the dictatorship in Syria, the security situation must be reassessed. This is exactly what I instructed the Minister of the Interior to do," Nehamer said.
The decision will affect at least 7,300 asylum seekers from Syria, Western media reported, citing a statement from the Austrian Ministry of the Interior. The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) also said it was suspending "asylum granting procedures and decision-making for Syrian applicants until The study of the situation in Syria".
The French newspaper Le Monde reports that Denmark's refugee appeals board has suspended 69 asylum applications from Syrian refugees due to the "very volatile situation" in Syria.
Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands have also stopped processing Syrian refugees' asylum applications.
On December 8, the armed opposition captured the capital of Syria, Damascus.
President Bashar al-Assad left the country and, according to publications, received asylum in Russia. The Syrian opposition forms a transitional government led by Mohammed al-Bashir.
