Rishi Sunak requires change to guidelines that stopped Rwanda deportation flight in assembly with European court docket chief.

Rishi Sunak has met with the European Court of Human Rights chief and requested for modifications to the principles which stopped the federal government’s Rwanda deportation flight.

An earlier model of this text reported that Rishi Sunak mentioned “8,000” individuals had been returned to Albania. Downing Street has since clarified the prime minister meant to say “a thousand”.

The prime minister was visiting the Council of Europe summit in Iceland right this moment, the place he was discussing migration and the war in Ukraine with different European leaders.

Mr Sunak met with Siofra O’Leary, the pinnacle of the European Court of Human Rights, primarily based in Strasbourg.

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After the bilateral, a Downing Street spokesperson mentioned: “The prime minister stressed the need to ensure all of Europe is working together to uphold these values and tackle the challenges we face, including illegal migration.

“The prime minister and court docket president additionally mentioned procedures earlier than the ECtHR, which the latter usually opinions, together with rule 39 interim measures.”

Mr Sunak was planning to make use of the summit in Reykjavik to name for reform to the way in which through which the European Court of Human Rights can stop countries from deporting people.

In explicit, he was taking purpose on the court docket’s rule 39, which was used to cease the federal government’s first – and to this point solely – try and deport individuals to Rwanda for the processing of their asylum claims.

Mr Sunak mentioned the court docket has “embarked” on a evaluation of the processes itself already.

He mentioned: “We want to make sure that the European court is always conducting itself in a way which is fair, which is effective, which is transparent.”

But Iceland’s international affairs minister sought to minimize the prominence of immigration reform as a subject for dialogue on the summit.

Thordis Gylfadottir informed the BBC: “This summit has not a big focus on that. The biggest focus is, of course, Ukraine, and then other issues such as AI and environment and other things. So this summit doesn’t have a big focus on migration in general.”

She added: “But the next two days, the time we have we are not using to reform certain articles in the court.”

Pressed on whether or not there could be discussions on the Prime Minister’s name for reforms to how rule 39 works, she mentioned: “I believe that there will be a discussion on it, but there will not be I think a real concrete outcome on reforming certain articles.”