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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8777
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/asylum

Number of asylum seekers in industrialised countries at lowest level for seventeen years

Brussels, 02/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - The UNHCR signalled on 31 August in a report that there had been a sharp drop in the number of asylum seekers to the thirty most industrialised countries in the second half of 2004 and is now at its lowest level since 1987. With a total of 86,800 requests, this translates into a 8% fall compared to the first quarter of the year, explained the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The only country where the demand increased in the first half of...

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