{"id":47798,"date":"2024-04-28T18:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/botswanas-foreign-minister-says-uk-also-approached-his-country-to-take-unwanted-immigrants"},"modified":"2024-04-28T19:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T19:40:12","slug":"botswanas-foreign-minister-says-uk-also-approached-his-country-to-take-unwanted-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/botswanas-foreign-minister-says-uk-also-approached-his-country-to-take-unwanted-immigrants","title":{"rendered":"Botswana&#8217;s foreign minister says UK also approached his country to take &#8216;unwanted immigrants&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Botswana\u2019s foreign minister says his country was approached by the U.K. to take some of what he called their \u201cunwanted immigrants\u201d but declined the request<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Botswana&#8217;s foreign minister said his country had been approached by the U.K. to take some of what he called their \u201cunwanted immigrants\u201d but declined the request.<\/p>\n<p>Lemogang Kwape&#8217;s comments in a telephone interview with South African television channel Newzroom Afrika on Tuesday came hours after the British Parliament finally passed legislation allowing a contentious plan to send some migrants to Rwanda to move ahead. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the first flights to Rwanda in East Africa would now leave in July.<\/p>\n<p>Kwape didn&#8217;t say when the U.K. approached the southern African nation of Botswana. It struck its contentious deal with Rwanda in April 2022 and British media has reported that the U.K. government has since held talks with four countries \u2014 Armenia, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast and Botswana \u2014 over replicating the Rwanda plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm that indeed the British government through the foreign secretary and the minister for Africa did approach Botswana through diplomatic channels to receive illegal migrants that are destined for the United Kingdom, but we did not accede to their request,\u201d Kwape told Newzroom Afrika.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have enough problems that we are dealing with, especially immigration problems in our neighborhood,&#8221; he said. \u201cSo I think to receive unwanted immigrants from another country while we are dealing with our own problems in the region will be unfair to Botswana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kwape said British authorities had mentioned migrants from Afghanistan as some of those they were proposing might be moved to Botswana but that was the only country mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were not that explicit,&#8221; Kwape said.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak&#8217;s plan to stem the tide of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats in the hope of claiming asylum in the U.K. has been beset by court battles and legislative delays and has been fiercely criticized by human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will see migrants who arrive in the U.K. as stowaways or in boats sent to Rwanda, where their asylum claims would be processed. If successful, they would stay in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The British government has already paid Rwanda at least 240 million pounds ($298 million) for the asylum plan even though no migrants have been deported yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Botswana\u2019s foreign minister says his country was approached by the U.K. to take some of what he called their \u201cunwanted immigrants\u201d but declined the request Botswana&#8217;s foreign minister said his country had been approached by the U.K. to take some of what he called their \u201cunwanted immigrants\u201d but declined the request. 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