Friday, August 26, 2016

Bulgarian PM Borissov calls on EU to lift visas for Turkey, to avert migrant wave

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, disturbed by the danger of a wave of migrants and refugees crossing from Turkey into his country and Greece, has called on European Union leaders to remove visa requirements for Turkish citizens.



Borissov made the call during an August 26 visit to Istanbul, during which he held talks with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim and that country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Speaking after meeting Yildirim, Borissov said “at the moment what the colleagues (in Turkey) are doing is to prevent a new more than two million wave of migrants from the area of Aleppo. Add more than three million here in Turkey, a significant part in Istanbul, actually we here in Europe need to make a clear assessment – if the accepted agreement is unsupported by votes in the European Council…how long will Turkey manage to stop them?”

Visa-free travel in the Schengen area was one of the key conditions put by Ankara at the signing of an agreement in March 2016 with the EU on readmission of migrants who had crossed the borders illegally. However, in turn the EU put certain conditions to Turkey, including amending anti-terrorism laws to ensure respect for human rights...
 [sofiaglobe.com]
26/8/16

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