66By stating that, because those circumstances ‘have ceased to exist’, the national ‘can no longer … continue to refuse to avail himself or herself of the protection of the country of nationality’, that article establishes, by its very wording, a causal connection between the change in circumstances and the impossibility for the person concerned to continue to refuse and thus to retain his refugee status, in that his original fear of persecution no longer appears to be well founded.
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