Vulin: Interior Ministry is making serious efforts to keep migrants off the streets

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Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said today that Serbia is the most successful country when it comes to fighting smuggling of people on the migrant route, and stressed that the Interior Ministry is making serious efforts to remove irregular migrants from the streets and place them in camps where they are provided with everything they need.

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Explaining the draft Law on Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia on Cooperation in Combating Smuggling of Migrants, Minister Vulin stressed that cooperation with neighbors is important and that it is a way to even more seriously and effectively protect our borders, the state and our way of life.

"Every person in our territory is protected by law and international law, but on condition that they respect law and international law. Serbia cannot become a parking lot for migrants, a country that will be entered and exited as anyone wishes, and spend time while in our territory any way they want. The state of Serbia cannot and has not allowed that," said Minister Vulin.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, as he pointed out, is making every effort to remove irregular migrants from our streets, because they cannot be there without control, and will do everything to ensure that our way of life is not disturbed in any way.

Minister Vulin assessed that the migrant crisis that began in 2015, as things stand now, will not end.

"As long as economic and political relations are the way they are in the world, as long as the European Union is not able to formulate a common policy when it comes to migrants, as long as large and powerful countries fail to reach a common position on the migrant crisis, it will continue," said Minister Vulin.

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Vulin also presented to the deputies of the National Assembly the Law on Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho on Defense Cooperation, pointing out that the agreement was a way to thank that country and show our respect towards it for respecting international law, when it withdrew its recognition of so-called Kosovo.

"The distance between Serbia and the Kingdom of Lesotho is not something that should discourage our cooperation, and this agreement shows a relationship of sincere respect for something that the Kingdom of Lesotho did at an important moment, by revoking the recognition of the fake state of Kosovo," said Minister Vulin.

According to him, Lesotho is not a big country, it does not have great potentials that some other, richer and better armed African countries have, but, as he said, it is precisely because it's small that it has shown the courage to respect international law.

(Telegraf.rs)