Karner and Faeser cancel trips because of terrorist warning!

Karner and Faeser cancel trips because of terrorist warning!

Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) canceled his trip to Syria due to concrete terrorist warnings. The Ministry of the Interior announced this. Karner was together with the German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) in Amman, from where the planned onward journey to Damascus should have taken place. The main goal of the trip was discussions about security questions and the return of Syrian refugees.

The decision to cancel the Karner and Faeser decision was considered necessary because the security situation was assessed as not responsible. First indications of a possible threat occurred on Wednesday evening. A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the risk may have affected the delegation and that the highest safety precautions for the trip were planned, which was also not announced publicly.

planned conversations and returns

The main topics of the planned discussions were security questions and perspectives to return Syrian refugees. Karner emphasized that they wanted to continue to enable returns to Syria to achieve more stability in the region. According to APA, around 280,000 Syrians have returned to their homeland since the fall of the Assad regime. Around 105,000 Syrians currently live in Austria, and over 2,400 disclosure procedures have been initiated. The family reunification was recently paused and shows the tense conditions in refugee policy.

The security situation in Syria still remains fragile, especially in the west of the country, where supporters of the fallen regime fight against new government forces. Almost 1000 civilians were reported there. Against this background, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) does not make a decision about asylum applications from people from Syria. Germany and Austria are also working to attribute difficult cases, such as severe offenders, to Syria as quickly as possible.

The situation of the Syrian refugees

Return pressure on refugees, such as Ibrahim, who fled with his family from Azaz, Syria, is immense. In Athens he lives in a small apartment and sees no future for himself or his children. He has to fight for survival because there is no state support for refugees in Greece. There is no social support and the economic situation is tense. Tugs require high sums for escape from Greece towards Northern Europe, which is unaffordable for many families.

brahim follows the news about the war in his homeland and currently sees no way to return. In his view, large countries such as Russia, America and Germany should contribute more to the end of the conflict in Syria. Meanwhile, refugees from Syria have a right to stay in Greece, but they are not equipped with the same rights as those from other countries.

The cancellation of the trip of Karner and Faeser reflects the complex and dangerous situation in which both politics and the refugees concerned have to act, while the situation in Syria continues to worsen.

The developments illustrate the challenges in front of which the countries are in solving the refugee crisis and the stabilization of the region.