the crisis in several related areas: to guarantee the basic rights of immigrants and the
management of the humanitarian crisis, to ease the migration flows and fight against human
trafficking, as well as integration of immigrants into the new host societies that would welcome
them or their integration after their repatriation to their countries of origin.
Humanitarian handling of refugees and migrants is an obligation for each country, the same as
the recognition of the rights pertaining to them under the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the Convention of 1951 relating the Status of Refugees and its Additional Protocol of
1967 and the Council of Directives of the European Union no. 95 of the year 2011 and no. 32
and 33 of the year 2013. Our country cannot be avoided by these obligations, modify, suspend or
postpone them, but should rather handle them as even more necessary in times of crisis.
Values and principles of solidarity, human rights and fundamental freedoms cannot represent
only “discourse exercises”, but they should be guiding our reflection and vision in facing the
migration crisis. We must realize that there are the serious violations of human rights in countries
and regions involved in armed conflict and plagued by poverty that push hundreds of thousands,
millions of people, to feed the massive migration flows. Measures undertaken by states that are
incompatible with European standards of human rights, not only are detrimental to social
cohesion, but they are actually ineffective and counter-productive for crisis management. It is
really required a “paradigmatic” change in relation to migration give an end to the “race” of
European countries to return migrants and to raise walls, wire netting and other barriers.
In connection with the existing and expecting flows of migrants and refugees, a present and
unquestionable phenomenon in today's Europe, Albania remains in a state that is still unprepared
properly. While ideas for the development of potential host, registration and assistance centers
for transit passing are numerous, no specific steps have been taken to have such reception
facilities. Given the need for cooperation with international organizations specialized in this
field, greater transparency is required in this regard in order to allow the general public and
society to be well-informed, which will bring simultaneously the reduction of any xenophobic
opinions. The spirit of solidarity and standards of human rights should be in the focus of
commitments of the political leadership and joint action. There is not excessive to say that, a
wider interaction should be ensured with civil society and international non-governmental
organizations in the field of human rights. These partners have valuable expertise and the
instruments of action mechanisms that are necessary for a wider geographic and demographic
impact.
While a large number of people is continuously seen attempting to cross the territory of several
European Union countries by any means, being more welcome in these places, the Albanian
asylum authorities do not follow the same rhythm and meaning with these developments.
Individuals caught illegally passing the border in order to come or to leave Albania, even though
they are clearly part of these flows, even though seeking protection from the Republic of Albania
and are clearly in terms of benefitting such defense, are denied completely or postponed
endlessly the entering into asylum procedures. This leaves them completely uncovered at the risk
of court decisions that do not take into consideration their need for protection and their specific
position as refugees, which ultimately leads to return to the countries they came from and the
violation of the “non-refoulement” principle.
This panorama appears while in a regional context and beyond of the crisis, it remains a rather
great concern the profilization of refugees based on the nationality and failure to guarantee the
right of access to asylum procedures, without discrimination. This concern also involves the fact
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