Fed: People smuggling 'out of control' - UN official

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2010
Fed: People smuggling 'out of control' - UN official

SYDNEY, April 9 AAP - Governments need new solutions to deal with "out of control"

people-smuggling as thousands of asylum seekers try to reach Australia via Indonesia,
a top United Nations official says.

Manuel Jordao, a senior representative of The United Nations High Commission for Refugees
in Indonesia, says a large number of almost 4000 asylum seekers on the UNHCR's books in
the archipelago will try to reach Australia by boat, rather than wait for resettlement
via official channels.

"It's a big business out there," Mr Jordano said in The Sydney Morning Herald on Friday.

"It's totally out of control and what we are proposing is that the states in the region
are being outmanoeuvred by the trafficking syndicates."

He said new solutions were required by governments across the region, and called on
them to "get their act together".

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KEYWORD: BOAT UN

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