Is a Convention signatory required to give permanent asylum to all refugees?
The Convention does not provide automatic or permanent protection. There will be situations where refugees will integrate permanently in their country of asylum, but alternatively a person may cease to be a refugee when the basis for his or her refugee status ceases to exist. Voluntary repatriation of refugees to their country of origin is UNHCR’s ‘preferred’ solution, but only when conditions in that state permit their safe return.
