Senior officials from the countries and agencies present at the Western Balkans Route Leaders’ Meeting had a detailed discussion on recent trends concerning external borders and reception capacity.
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With record numbers of refugees and displaced people worldwide, the new head of the UN Refugee Agency Filippo Grandi has urged greater diplomatic efforts to find solutions to conflicts and abuses driving people from their homes.
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IOM Greece reported that 106,776 migrants crossed into the Greek islands during the month of December, an average of over 3,400 per day. Total migrant inflows through the blue borders of Greece approached 850,000 arrivals for the year.
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Eighteen migrants, including six children, were killed on Thursday morning, while trying to reach the island of Lesvos.
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It was 1:30 am in the morning and the Yassins had just come off a three-hour windowless van journey. They were now somewhere near the Turkish town of Çeşme and the people smugglers’ overcrowded vessel was waiting.
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Persecution, conflict and poverty have driven a staggering one million people to seek safety in Europe in 2015, according to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration, IOM.
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The organization argues that national security and international protection for refugees are not mutually exclusive, and calls for an integrated approach that ensures both goals are being met.
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UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends 2015 report, covering the period from January to end June, shows markers firmly in the red in each of the three major categories of displacement: Refugees, asylum-seekers, and people forced to flee inside their own countries.
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KOTZIAS: as regards the name issue “we are seeking an honest compromise” – POPOSKI: “creation of false expectations is in no one’s interest.”
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The number of migrants arriving in Greece in November fell by more than half from the previous month to 108,000, recording its first month-on-month drop this year. However, this was still the highest number of arrivals in Greece in the month of November.
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