Il Belgio sospende le richieste di asilo siriane

>Applications will be put ‘on hold’ for a while until there is more clarity on the situation in Syria. ‘In the meantime, people are still entitled to reception’. Around 35,000 Syrians have received protection in Belgium over the past decade. This year too, Syrians are the top nationality in a ranking of asylum applications (4,725 applications between January and October).

>State secretary for asylum and migration Nicole De Moor is not ruling out reviewing the refugee status of Syrians in the future, but only if the situation in Syria improves in a sustainable way: ‘Refugee status is not necessarily forever. If the situation in Syria improves sustainably, I will ask for the refugee status of Syrians who arrived here in the last five years to be revisited. But it is too early for that at the moment.’

[Source](https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/12/09/belgium-puts-syrian-asylum-applications-on-hold/)

Dear Olivier Brasseur, if you consider the situation in Syria too “unclear” how come that you have decided so “clearly and quickly” to stop the asylum applications in Belgium?

The fact that [there is still war](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/world/middleeast/syria-israel-turkey-us-strikes.html) and that a considered Islamic terrorist is leading the country are arguments to suddenly stop asylum requests?