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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sammy Gecsoyler

Kosovo offers to become first country to accept Britain’s refused asylum seekers

Albin Kurti, prime minister of Kosovo, stands in a line of guests and shakes hands with King Charles at a reception for western Balkans leaders at St James's Palace
King Charles greets Albin Kurti, prime minister of Kosovo, during a reception at St James’s Palace for leaders of western Balkans countries. Kurti said he ‘wants to help the UK’ with plans to set up ‘return hubs’ in third countries Photograph: Aaron Chown/Reuters

Kosovo has become the first country to indicate it will accept Britain’s refused asylum seekers as part of government plans to set up “return hubs” in third countries.

Albin Kurti, the prime minister of Kosovo, said he “wants to help the UK” and confirmed discussions were taking place with officials from the UK, the Times reports. The plans would seek to send people whose asylum claims had been turned down to foreign detention centres once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal.

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