HIGHLIGHTS AND STATISTICS
Authorities, UNHCR, and partners estimate that close to 7,000 refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants are presently in Serbia, with over 5,760 (i.e. 82%) accommodated in 15 governmental facilities (see chart), and the remainder sleeping rough in Belgrade City centre or at the border with Hungary.
Supporting access to better accommodation and services as well as the decongesting of Belgrade city centre, UNHCR and partners assisted 91 newly-registered asylum seekers with transport from Belgrade to Pirot.
27 asylum-seekers were admitted into the two Hungarian “transit zones”. Around 130 are awaiting admission outside the zones on Serbian territory. UNHCR and partners received reports of over 120 foreign nationals claiming to have been collectively expelled from Hungary and four from Croatia, reportedly without having been granted access to asylum procedures there.
139 refugees/migrants registered intent to seek asylum, bringing the total for the month of December to 906, and for the year to 12,747.