Order 442 (1988)

Right to asylum

Author(s): Parliamentary Assembly

Origin - Assembly debate on 7 October 1988 (15th Sitting) (seeDoc. 5930, report of the Legal Affairs Committee, Rapporteur : Mrs Offenbeck ; andDoc. 5940,opinion of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography, Rapporteur : Mr Böhm). Text adopted by the Assembly on 7 October 1988 (15th Sitting).

The Assembly,

1. Referring to its Recommendation 1088 (1988) on the right to territorial asylum ;

2. Considering that, in recent years, there have been numerous cases of persons seeking refuge in diplomatic premises of Council of Europe member states ;

3. Considering that there are numerous and delicate problems in respect of such refugees ;

4. Concerned about the difficult situation many asylum-seekers face when arriving by air in a member state of the Council of Europe,

5. Instructs its Legal Affairs Committee, and its Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography, for opinion :

5.1. to continue following closely all developments in respect of the right to territorial asylum in Council of Europe member states ;

5.2. to make a study on the legal and political aspects of the right to diplomatic asylum ;

5.3. to report back to the Assembly on these questions if and when they deem fit to do so ;

6. Instructs its Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography, and its Legal Affairs Committee, for opinion, to study the treatment received by asylum-seekers arriving at European airports and to report back to the Assembly on this issue in due course.