Minister convinced migrants won't be forced back to Serbia

<a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2015&mm=09&dd=03&nav_id=95315" class="text-link" target= "_blank">Hungary's announcements</a> it would start sending migrants back to Serbia and deploy soldiers on its southern border are "worrying," says Aleksandar Vulin.

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Friday, 04.09.2015.

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Minister convinced migrants won't be forced back to Serbia

A large number of migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa have ben traveling through the Balkans and Hungary with the goal of reaching western and northern Europe.

In a statement for the Belgrade-based TV Pink broadcaster, Vulin said those migrants who crossed from Serbia to Hungary "won't be sent back," and added Serbia "wishes to preserve good relations with Hungary."

According to him, "the whole procedure of returning those people is not so simple" while "according to rules" they could be sent back from Hungary to the first EU country, "which would be Greece."

"There is no decision to do that, nor is that a European position. It's possible that these people are sent from Hungary back to Serbia, and then we would send them back to Macedonia, and they to Greece, but that is a scenario of chaos and that will not happen," said Vulin.

Commenting on the statements coming from Hungarian officials, the Serbian minister called for "calming tensions" and abandoning the usage of "hard language in the political life." He then said that the border fence Hungary has built "will not stop life" while "Christian values are not defended with (barb)wire."

"The Hungarian wall can slow those people down on their way to Europe, or wherever they're headed, but then there will have to be a policy of wires, because they will move across Romania, Croatia, or Bosnia. that's impossible, wires cannot stop 100,000 people," said Vulin.

According to him, "nobody's thinking about forcing a large number of migrants to return to Serbia" while if somebody made this attempt Serbia would react in line with its interests "as a sovereign country."

The minister believes that the migrant crisis is "a great challenge for all of Europe" and that unless the EU establishes the same rules for all 28 members regarding the treatment of migrants, "it is questionable whether the EU will even survive in its present form."

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