During a meeting with French Minister for Immigration Eric Besson yesterday, 18 September, in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres said he hoped that appropriate measures will be taken to assure the protection of asylum seekers and unaccompanied children during the public action to take place in the northern French city of Calais in the course of the next week. This was expressed following Mr. Besson’s announcement earlier in the week that French authorities will close down the various makeshift settlements in and around Calais - known as the ‘jungle’ - where several hundred undocumented foreigners are waiting in the hope to cross into the UK.
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