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Article: Asylum seekers on Nauru no longer Australia's problem, attorney general says
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- January 7, 2004
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AP Worldstream
01-07-2004
Dateline: CANBERRA, Australia
Asylum seekers dumped by Australia into a detention camp that it built on the island of Nauru are now the Pacific nation's problem, Australia's attorney general said Wednesday.
"The people involved are within Nauru's sovereign territory, and all of the obligations, essentially, are the obligations of Nauru," Philip Ruddock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
Earlier in the week, Nauru criticized Australia for not looking after the Central Asian and Middle Eastern asylum seekers.
Canberra set up the camp in late 2001 as part of a hardline policy _ though popular with voters _ known as the "Pacific Solution" to discourage boat people ...