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Boris Rhein (CDU), Prime Minister of Hesse, speaks in the state parliament.
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Hesse's Prime Minister complains about the lack of migration agreements with main countries of origin that regulate the return of people with little prospect of asylum.
The CDU man sees mistakes in the federal government.
Wiesbaden - Hesse's Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU) has accused the federal government and the special representative for migration agreements, Joachim Stamp (FDP), of failing to negotiate migration agreements.
“So far there are no migration agreements to take back nationals from main countries of origin such as Turkey, who have little prospect of asylum,” Rhein told the “Handelsblatt”.
However, it is important that the federal government negotiates agreements with such countries of origin so that they can take back their nationals and quickly issue the necessary documents.
Only then could the federal states fulfill their obligation and actually repatriate the people, explained Rhein.
Special Representative Stamp will be in office for one year on February 1st.
The FDP politician should ensure that migration to Germany is more orderly and that returns of rejected asylum seekers work better.
Stamp was Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia until June 2022, where he was responsible for, among other things, refugees and integration.
After the FDP's participation in government ended, his party advocated entrusting Stamp with the new position of special representative for migration agreements agreed in the traffic light government's coalition agreement.
The FDP politician Stephan Thomae drew a positive interim assessment of Stamp's term in office so far.
In the same paper he certified his party colleague's “significant successes”.
You need diplomatic skills to conclude such agreements, said Thomae.
Conversations could therefore sometimes take longer.
dpa