Asylum numbers ‘continue to fall’

The number of asylum seekers arriving in industrialised countries halved in the last five years, according to the United Nations Refugees Agency, March 2006. In the EU, the number of asylum seekers in 2005 was the lowest since 1988.

UNHCR: Press Release, 17.3.06: Asylum applications in the last five years drop by half http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/news/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=441929762

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