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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-10-04
CONTENTS
[01] Focus on illegal migration
[01] Focus on illegal migration
(ÁÍÁ-ÌPA) -- Citizens' Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis, speaking
in the extreme northeastern city of Alexandroupolis on Sunday during a
meeting on the increasingly urgent problem of illegal immigration,
emphasised that "Greece is not a free-for-all."
A briefing for officials cited the intensity of the problem in the
Evros River region, which marks the land border between Greece and EU
hopeful Turkey. Amongst others, authorities said more and more illegal
immigrants -- the vast majority from the Middle East, South Asia,
Central Asia and increasing from Africa -- are attempting to enter EU
territory via Greece in relation to clandestine sea landings on Aegean
islands and continental Greece. (ÁÍÁ-ÌPA)
"Greece can no longer tolerate the waves of illegal immigrants, and all
are aware that it this not a phenomenon that concerns only our country,
but the European Union as a whole," Papoutsis, a former EU
Commissioner, underlined.
He further indicated that the Papandreou government will take
additional initiatives in the near future within the framework of the
European Union, which he called on to assume its responsibilities
towards a country that is "currently experiencing the greatest pressure
by immigration flows". (ÁÍÁ-ÌPA)
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