The Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee discusses the Bill on International Protection in an expedited manner.

According to one of the initiators, Guram Macharashvili, the foreign citizen or a stateless person shall not be considered an asylum-seeker and shall not be subject to the non-expulsion principle as stipulated under the Law if his/her application for the commencement of the asylum procedures and repeated international protection has been declined under the individual administrative-legal act.

“The extradition of a hereof person to a foreign state or his/her expulsion from Georgia shall be admissible. The same regulations shall apply in case of the recall of the claim or the appeal by the asylum-seeker, appeal of the Court ruling on the hereof claim, and the re-appeal to the Court concerning the international protection”, - the reporter noted.

The Bill stipulates that the foreign citizen or a stateless person shall be entitled to re-submit the application for international protection in case as well if the extension of his/her humanitarian status has been declined.

The Bill also specifies the decision-making rule concerning the repeated application for international protection. The foreign citizen or a stateless person shall get through the interview if necessary. MPs expressed their positions and remarks.

According to the Chair of the Committee, Mikheil Sarjveladze, the re-regulation of the issue has become necessary due to the possibility of the abuse and simulations of the hereof opportunity. “We may further discuss the Bill within the Legal Issues Committee and at the plenary session”, - M. Sarjveladze noted. The Committee approved the Bill.