Turkey- Macedonia Calls for EU wide Solution to Migrant Crisis
Date
2/11/2016 4:59:55 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Macedoniawon’t allow to be turned into a refugee camp the country’s Foreign Minister NikolaPoposkihas stated referring to the influx of asylum seekers transiting the Balkan country fromGreeceon their way to the EU.
“We will provide humane and safe transit for all we will apply all decisions passed at European level we will cooperate as before withGreeceand other member states which provide support such as theCzech Republic”Poposkitold reporters after a meeting with his Czech counterpart LubomirZaoralekin Skopje on Wednesday according to MIA.
Poposkisaid that for the Macedonian government it was important to implement agreements reached at EU level; to provide assistance to Turkey for refugees and control of the Turkishborderbut also in the control of EU’s externalborderin Greece.
“Macedoniawants to cooperate withGreecebut without unilateral solutions. We need to work together towards control. Safe and humane treatment of migrants and all those eligible for asylum in some European country” MIA quoted Popski as saying.
The Macedonian authorities have begun building a second layer of the existing metalborderfencealong the country’sborderwithGreeceto stem the influx of asylum seekers crossing into the country the AP reported on Tuesday.
Only refugees from Syria Afghanistan and Iraq have been allowed to crossMacedonia’sborderwithGreeceon their journey to western Europe since November but migrants from other countries have still tried to get across.
Last month the European Commission pledged to increase security at the Greek-Macedonian frontier where more than 60 police officers from other countries including theCzech Republic are deployed to help control the migrant flow.
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