Cuban refugees to settle in Australia

Cuban refugees to settle in Australia
AAP April 5, 2010, 3:37 pm

The federal government has agreed to resettle three Cuban refugees in
Australia at the request of the United States.

The men met Australian government health, character and security checks,
the Department of Immigration said.

They are presently being housed alongside Haitian asylum seekers at a
migration operations centre at Guantanamo Bay, the US-run detention
centre in Cuba.

Asylum seekers are housed in a separate facility to US enemy combatants.

"The three Cuban refugees are not in any way associated with those
detainees at Guantanamo Bay whom the US government has detained as enemy
combatants since 2002," the department said in a statement.

It is not yet known where in Australia the refugees will be settled.

In 2002, Australia resettled a Cuban and a Haitian family who had been
intercepted in waters off the United States and found to be in need of
protection.

Some 40 Cuban refugees were resettled in Australia in 1981.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees determines who meets
refugee criteria

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