Amendment No. 15 | Doc. 14341 | 27 June 2017

Human rights implications of the European response to transit migration across the Mediterranean

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Origin - 2017 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 3, replace the first sentence with the following sentence:

"The Assembly notes that its concerns relating to possible returns of Syrian refugees to Turkey as a "first country of asylum" or "safe third country" under the EU-Turkey Statement have not materialised, as until now no Syrian asylum seeker (or any other nationality) has been returned to Turkey on that basis."