premise: In February police chiefs in Austria, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia signed a joint statement saying that if Afghan asylum-seekers had lived in a third country, such as Iran or Turkey, <hypo> the fact that screening refugees based on nationality alone shows blatant disregard for the Geneva Conventions, says Claire Rimmer Quaid of the European Council of Refugees and Exiles, an alliance of 90 NGOs.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "their claim would not be validdespite"