Turkey- Serbia Will Keep Borders Open to Migrants PM Vucic Says
Date
10/28/2015 3:43:48 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Serbiawon’t close itsborderstomigrants the country’s Prime Minister AleksandarVucichas said.
InsteadSerbiawill do its best to helpmigrantsarriving at itsbordersVucichas said in an interview with German daily newspaper Handelsblatt Serbian news agency Tanjug reported on Tuesday.
Regardless of whetherCroatiawill build a razor wire fence along its border withSerbia- likeHungaryhad done –Serbia’s government won’t be putting up fences on the country’sborders including those withBulgariaand MacedoniaVucicsaid.
SerbiaBulgariaand Romania must act together in solidarity with Europe and demand solidarity from the other European countries to better manage the refugee crisisVucicsaid at ameetingwith his Bulgaian and Romanian counterparts Boyko Borisov and Victor Ponta in Sofia last week. Borisov said after the meting thatif Germany and Austria closed theirborderstomigrantsBulgaria Romania andSerbiawill be ready to do the same.
In his interview with HandelsblattVucicrejected the view that the support forrefugeeswill negatively impact economic recovery.
There were more than 10000migrantsinSerbiaa week ago stranded by limits imposed further west and north inEurope according to theUN refugee agency.
Non-EUSerbiaand EU memberCroatiaagreed on Friday to increase the flow of asylum-seekers over their border after thousands spent a night out in the open in near-zero temperatures. The interior ministers of the two countries agreed that the Serbian authorities will sendmigrantsdirectly toCroatiaby train so the people won't have to trek kilometers in rain and mud.
AfterHungaryerected razor-wire fences along itsborderswithSerbiaandCroatiamigrantsstill cross from Turkey to Greece to Macedonia toSerbia but now go west viaCroatiaand Slovenia.
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