Source: Reuters - AlertNet
Country: Afghanistan, Hungary, Pakistan, Serbia
by Reuters
Saturday, 16 July 2016 09:31 GMT
"Serbia does not want to become a collective centre for migrants," says Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic
BELGRADE, July 16 (Reuters) - Serbian police and army will form joint patrols to protect the country's borders from illegal crossings of migrants mostly coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday.
Around 100,000 migrants from Middle East, Asia and Africa have passed through Serbia so far in 2016 despite the closure of the so-called "Balkan route", which hundreds of thousands used last year to reach Western Europe.
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