NSC still deciding on closing UNHCR offices here in the long term, says DG


SHAH ALAM: The National Security Council is still mulling a decision to close the office of the United Nations High Commission For Refugees (UNHCR) in the long term.

National Security Council Director-General Datuk Rodzi Md Saad said that this was to enable local authorities to take the management of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers into their own hands as it was a matter of national security.

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