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Papua New Guinea Tells Australia to Prepare Plan to Resettle Asylum Seekers

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Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court ordered Australia on Tuesday to prepare a plan for resettling migrants from its offshore migrant camp on Manus Island, Australian media reported.

In this May 12, 2013 file photo, Iranian asylum seekers who were caught in Indonesian waters while sailing to Australia sit on a boat at Benoa port in Bali, Indonesia. Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 ruled that Australia's detention of asylum seekers at a facility on the country's Manus Island is unconstitutional. - Sputnik International
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Papua New Guinea Court Rules Australian Detention Center at Manus Illegal
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — This comes after a ruling in April that the Australian-run detention camp was holding some 900 migrants illegally for trying to cross into the country by boat, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

The Australian government has been given until Thursday to come up with a resettlement plan and present it to the Papua New Guinean authorities.

Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the country would not take in people who tried to come illegally, adding the Supreme Court’s decision was an issue primarily for Papua New Guinea’s government.

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