The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Mrs Mary Robinson, has rejected proposals made in Britain yesterday to rewrite international asylum law. "I would be very concerned about any reformulation or any reopening of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees," Mrs Robinson told a news conference.
She was replying to a question about a speech by British Home Secretary, Mr Jack Straw, who called for a greater distinction to be made between genuine asylum seekers and economic migrants.
