Former deputy secretary of state Heather Higginbottom says US agreed to deal in order to relieve refugees’ sufferingThe Obama administration urged Australia to change its policy of offshore detention of refugees while agreeing to accept up to 1200 people to relieve their suffering,a former senior US official has said.
The former US deputy secretary of state Heather Higginbottom, who negotiated the deal designed to acquire refugees from offshore detention on Manus Island and Nauru, or makes the revelation in a Time magazine article. Related: Iraqi and Syrian refugees will be settled in Armidale from next year Related: Australia is once again a frightened country. We need to reconstruct our values | Anne Summers Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com