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Euroland frays at the edges ReprintsUnder the People's Party initiative, any asylum-seeker who arrived at the Swiss border after passing through a "safe" third country, which could also have provided asylum, would have been turned back.

Mr. Larijani's trip was important because Tehran cut ties with Egypt, a predominantly Sunni country, when Cairo signed a peace agreement with Israel in 1979 and provided asylum for the deposed shah of Iran.

US relations with Ecuador have been strained in recent years, even before Correa provided asylum in 2012 to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose organization published troves of leaked US military documents and diplomatic cables highly embarrassing to Washington.

Canada provided asylum for the Dutch monarchy while that country was occupied, and is credited by the Netherlands for major contributions to its liberation from Nazi Germany.

Putin compared Snowden to WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who has been provided asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, saying that both men were labeled criminals but consider themselves rights activists and champions of freedom of information.

The authorities in Burma have failed to protect them, and Bangladesh refuses to provide asylum to those fleeing the attacks.

They came to talk to me but said it was not possible to provide asylum or a visa," Atmar said.

■ Responsibility-sharing The current refugee regime creates an obligation on states to provide asylum to refugees on their territory.

The Netherlands currently faces a problem in providing asylum for girls who married in Syria but are below the Dutch age of consent, which some argue condones pedophilia.

Pakistan said that it would not provide asylum to Mr. bin Laden or to Mullah Omar and that it was intent on keeping out fighters associated with them.

Britain said on Thursday it would make a formal protest to the Ecuadorian government over its decision to provide asylum to Assange.