News in English     | 31.05.2018. 14:31 |

Mektić: 5,116 migrants entered BiH in 2018, 70 percent left

FENA Muhamed Hadžibegić

SARAJEVO, May 31 (FENA) - Bosnia and Herzegovina's Minister of Security Dragan Mektić said at today's press conference in Sarajevo that 5,116 illegal migrants have entered the country since the beginning of the year, of which about 70 percent have left.

After the meeting of the Operational Headquarters for Migration Issues in BiH, Mr. Mektić said that the application for asylum had so far been submitted by 475 of them, but that no one had been granted asylum.

He explained that the Pakistani citizens are the most numerous, followed by the Syrians, and in the third place are the Iranians to whom Serbia has revoked visas and are trying to reach Western Europe.

Mr. Mektić pointed out that the sending of additional forces at the border had given good results, and that this year, 3,300 migrants returned from the BiH border.

He underlined that the theses about the "secret plan of Sarajevo" to populate Republika Srpska with thousands of migrants are a fabrication and that this is impossible, and that this story is inspired by the politicians to draw attention from real problems.

Mr. Mektić also said that the EU Crisis Fund had approved 1.5 million euros of assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina to combat illegal migration.

He announced that an international conference on these issues will be held on June 7 at which representatives of Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria will take part, and that he would ask several questions at that meeting which would have to be answered and that he would insist on finding the point where migrants gather, which he considers to be in Greece.

He also said that it was agreed that the Operational Headquarters for Migration Issues in BiH would meet every Thursday, after which press conferences will be held because of the interest of the media and the public.

(FENA)
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