Serbia receives more irregular migrants than asylum seekers
Serbia registered more irregular migrants in transit to the EU than asylum seekers, it was noted during a meeting on asylum and migration on Tuesday.
Wednesday, 19.02.2014.
11:02
Serbia receives more irregular migrants than asylum seekers
He also announced a new law on asylum seekers by the end of May which would draw a distinction between asylum seekers and irregular migrants who are just in transit.Božović specified that 5,065 foreign nationals were in Serbia with the intention to seek an asylum in 2013, and that 153 applications were actually submitted, while only two people got the asylum.
"In most cases, these are just irregular migrants coming across Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, to Serbia on their way to the EU member states," Božović said.
By the end of February, the MUP will start implementing the ombudsman's recommendations and tightening up the border control, he said.
In 2013, the smuggling of 1,737 people was foiled, and 187 criminal lawsuits filed, while the smuggling of 206 people has been thwarted since the beginning of 2014, Božović said.
Ombudsman Saša Janković said that his office gave around 20 recommendations for improving the situation in that field.
In the last six years, five asylums were granted in total, while 11,795 people went across Serbia and were detected in one way or another, he said.
Janković said that most of them were irregular migrants in transit from Africa to some EU country.
"They were not registered anywhere before along that route, no interviews were conducted with them, as the country which does this first is the country to which they will be sent back if their asylum application is rejected in the destination country. That is why the countries are avoiding to do what international regulations require," Janković noted.
The ombudsman said that Serbian institutions are ready to work on resolving the issue, but noted that the entire region should invest efforts in that.
Representative of UNHCR for Serbia Eduardo Arboleda said that it is vital to make a distinction between asylum seekers and those in transit across Serbia as the state has to treat these people in a different way.
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