Dacic, Poposki: EUR 1 million for asylum seekers not enough

Serbia and Macedonia have called in Vienna on Thursday for further EU action on the issue of asylum seekers, noting that EUR 1 million that the bloc earmarked for assistance to the countries is not enough

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has told a news conference that Europe is facing the biggest refugee crisis since the World War Two, adding that this a large migration of people, with Serbia as a transit country on their road.

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“It is easy to create problems in other parts of the world, and that we then pay the price. We are certainly not to blame for problems in the countries of origin, but we have 2,000 migrants crossing our border daily,” the Serbian foreign minister said, noting that another 44,000 refugees from the past wars and 220,000 internally displaced people from Kosovo-Metohija live in Serbia, which could not possibly be disregarded.

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Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki has noted that his country is facing a very specific problem, as migrants are arriving in it from EU member countries.

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He has said that up until recently around 4,000 arrived in Macedonia on a daily basis, forecasts saying that in the coming period the daily figure will stand at 3,000.

(Telegraf.co.uk/ Tanjug)