KOTA TINGGI: Malaysia will not grant political asylum to illegal immigrants including Acehnese who entered the country without travel papers, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.
He said the Government also did not want a situation where recognition was given to illegal immigrants who sought political asylum by asking the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to register them as refugees.
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