UN: The EU can have a final opportunity to resolve the refugee next week
The number of migrants arriving in Europe will increase in the coming days and the flow can break into new routes announced Friday the UN agency for refugees, inviting the EU to seize a final opportunity to resolve the refugee crisis next week.
The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Adrian Edwards said the meetings of the justice and interior ministers Tuesday and the European Council Wednesday will be "critically important."
"This time the situation in southeast Croatia is seriously worrying. We have at least 13,000 people have come from 8 or 9 this morning. Very little help was available, "said Edwards told Reuters.
He added that the EU failed to resolve a manageable problem. The border closures diverted migration flows from Hungary, where the authorities have used tactics which have characterized the United Nations' cruel and xenophobic ", Croatia.
"If the roads are closed in one place you will certainly see people move to other routes elsewhere. We have already seen cases of people arriving in Brindisi in Italy from Turkey.
You can see more people coming from Libya-Italy route. The closure of the border does not solve anything at all in fact, merely pushes somewhere else. "
Edwards said that the UNHCR is closely monitoring the situation in Slovenia, Austria and Croatia, but pressure could return to Serbia, although the number of immigrants held there.
"If you push people into different directions is much more difficult to manage the problem," he said.
Asked if the UNHCR can help to launch trains carrying refugees through Hungary and Austria through Germany, he said the UNHCR wants a collective European response rather than a "pull to one or two countries where the situation may eventually become non- manageable. "
The number of migrants arriving in Europe will increase in the coming days and the flow can break into new routes announced Friday the UN agency for refugees, inviting the EU to seize a final opportunity to resolve the refugee crisis next week.
The representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Adrian Edwards said the meetings of the justice and interior ministers Tuesday and the European Council Wednesday will be "critically important."
"This time the situation in southeast Croatia is seriously worrying. We have at least 13,000 people have come from 8 or 9 this morning. Very little help was available, "said Edwards told Reuters.
He added that the EU failed to resolve a manageable problem. The border closures diverted migration flows from Hungary, where the authorities have used tactics which have characterized the United Nations' cruel and xenophobic ", Croatia.
"If the roads are closed in one place you will certainly see people move to other routes elsewhere. We have already seen cases of people arriving in Brindisi in Italy from Turkey.
You can see more people coming from Libya-Italy route. The closure of the border does not solve anything at all in fact, merely pushes somewhere else. "
Edwards said that the UNHCR is closely monitoring the situation in Slovenia, Austria and Croatia, but pressure could return to Serbia, although the number of immigrants held there.
"If you push people into different directions is much more difficult to manage the problem," he said.
Asked if the UNHCR can help to launch trains carrying refugees through Hungary and Austria through Germany, he said the UNHCR wants a collective European response rather than a "pull to one or two countries where the situation may eventually become non- manageable. "
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