Interim Prime Minister rejects letter of Nauru refugees seeking asylum



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The Acting Prime Minister sent back a letter sent to him by 27 refugees seeking asylum in New Zealand.

  Winston Peters

Winston Peters
Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller

The group wrote to Interim Prime Minister Winston Peters, saying that they were becoming more and more desperate after have been detained at the detention center for more than five years. They promised not to use New Zealand as a back door to Australia if they were accepted.

The refugees argued that Australia had been so cruel and cruel that it was "overcrowded". none of them wanted to go anyway

. 15,000 refugees but the Australian government refused to accept.

million. Peters stated that he had long warned that New Zealand was being used as a back door in Australia and that the consequences were now visible. I, as interim Prime Minister, to give an answer to the consequences of this, where people write saying that we will not use New Zealand as a lock for Australia.

"Unfortunately, our citizenship still has these rights and will offer him second-class citizenship."

M. Peters said the government had not considered bypassing Australia and dealing directly with Nauru.

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