Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Austria, Hungary, Serbia seek to stop migration


(MENAFN) Presidents of Austria, Hungary and Serbia on Wednesday held another top-level conference focusing on stopping migration.

Strategies included sending over 100 police officers, cars equipped with night vision cameras and drones to the frontier with North Macedonia.

Austria and Hungary also vowed to aid Serbia arrange deportations of people who arrive there from "safe" nations and are not qualified for refuge in the member states of the EU or in Serbia, on the words of officials.

“We have come to the point where individual EU countries are looking for new forms of partnership outside what is possible in the EU,” as stated by Austrian President Karl Nehammer.

“The EU’s asylum system has failed.”

Officials from the three nations already held a similar conference before weeks and lower-level discussions took place in the meantime.

The initiative came when nations recorded a rise in the figure of refugees moving along the "Balkan route".

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