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I voted in favour of this report. Assistance in cases of transit for the purposes of removal by air is a sufficiently important issue to justify laying down a code of conduct and clear provisions on the rights and responsibilities of transit states, as well as of the escorts accompanying third-country nationals during expulsion. The state of ‘legal limbo’ in which both states and escorts accompanying persons in the process of being expelled found themselves was of no help in defining their roles and responsibilities.
I cannot, however, support minority arguments which irresponsibly advocate lifting all border restrictions.
If I may, moreover, refer ironically to one of the rapporteur’s proposals, I do not consider it ‘inappropriate’ to refer to third-country nationals as ‘persons’, because that is what we all actually are, regardless of our nationality. That is exactly why it is justifiable to insert clauses forbidding transit when there is a risk of any third-country national suffering inhumane or humiliating treatment, torture or the death penalty, or when his or her life or freedom is threatened on grounds of race, religion, nationality, social group or political conviction."@en1
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