Qatar- Merkel to Visit Turkey Monday

2/6/2016 10:58:18 PM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Berlin February 06 (QNA) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Turkey on Monday for talks on the migrant crisis.
Merkel will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to discuss "the further implementation of the EU-Turkey action plan" agreed in November to reduce the number of asylum seekers arriving in the bloc spokesman Steffen Seibert said.
They will discuss aspects of the plan that have not yet been implemented and "how we can make progress on reducing illegal migration and replacing it with legal migration" Seibert said.
It will be the second bilateral meeting between Merkel and Davutoglu in a month after talks in Berlin on January 22 where the two leaders signed an agreement to "do everything to reduce the number of refugees" crossing into the EU. (QNA)

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