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    GS (Existence of internal armed conflict) Afghanistan [2009] UKAIT 00010

    ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION TRIBUNAL

    Date of hearing: 24 February 2009

    Date Determination notified: 24 February 2009

    Before
    Senior Immigration Judge Mather
    Between
    GS
    APPELLANT
    and
     
    Secretary of State for the Home Department RESPONDENT
    DIRECTIONS
    The Secretary of State concedes that as at 7 January 2009 for the purpose of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) there is an internal armed conflict in Afghanistan extending to the whole of the territory of Afghanistan

    The respondent having by letter dated 7 January 2009 conceded that, for the purposes of International Humanitarian Law ("IHL") there is at present an internal armed conflict in Afghanistan, and that for the purposes of IHL the whole of the territory of Afghanistan is to be treated as being in such a conflict

    IT IS DIRECTED that the issue as to the existence of such a conflict is not to be aired at the forthcoming substantive hearing.

    Signed

    Senior Immigration Judge Mather

    24 February 2009


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