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SARAJEVO, May 14 (FENA) - We want to maintain a humane attitude towards migrants, preserve the aspect of security and continue to act in accordance with BiH laws, guidelines and standards of international conventions to which we are signatories. These three determinants will be the key definition of our further work, the Chairman of the BiH Council of Ministers Denis Zvizdić said today after the meeting of the Migration Coordination Body of BiH.
Mr. Zvizdić added that the meeting was consultative and that they had prepared action plans and other plans which will be adopted tomorrow by the Council of Ministers, with precise activities, bearers and deadlines for their implementation.
“This route has become interesting at the beginning of May. The number of migrants has increased daily to 60, then to 80, and now we have more than 100 migrants on a daily basis. We have a part of the facilities that at this moment have available space and those who are outdoors will be taken care of in a humane and human-worthy way that will involve humane accommodation, health care and all other forms of their accommodation. Also, we will continue working with neighboring countries, Serbia and Montenegro, improve border control, provide material and personnel assistance to the Border Service and Service for Foreigners’ Affairs and other agencies,” Mr. Zvizdić said.
On the basis of the plan that will be adopted tomorrow, he added, representatives of European institutions and the UN are expected to act in the same way and in the capacity as it happened when a similar crisis was faced by Serbia, Macedonia, which means that expert, technical, and especially financial assistance is expected in order to build accommodation capacities, provide health care, education...
The consultative meeting on the migrant crisis convened by Mr. Zvizdić was attended by ministers and deputy ministers of BiH, the Ombudsmen of BiH, representatives of the Border Police and the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs, as well as US Ambassador Maureen Cormack, representatives of the embassies of Germany, Italy and Greece and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR.
BiH Minister of Security Dragan Mektić said that this migrant crisis was much more complex and more complicated in the way that it is happening now than it was in the year 2014.
“These are illegal groups that go from Turkey, Greece, through Albania, Montenegro, Serbia and come to BiH. The crisis is growing in intensity and it is more complicated because among those migrants there are vulnerable persons, unaccompanied minors, families, and therefore you have to deal with them differently,” Mr. Mektić said.
Minister of Human Rights and Refugees Semiha Borovac said that at tomorrow's Council of Ministers session, her ministry would suggest that the refugee center in Salakovac opens its doors to migrants, primarily for families with children and for children without parental care. She added that she would suggest that this refugee center is turned into a temporary asylum seeker center, adding that Salakovac was ready to receive 296 people immediately.
Ms. Borovac announced that BiH would activate the Fund for Migrants which it joined in late 2016 and thus withdraw significant funds from this fund.
Mr. Mektić added that there were available capacities at the center in Delijaš and that 4,000 illegal migrants have been registered in BiH since the beginning of the year, with a third, or 1,000 to 1,200 that are still in BiH, while others left the country.
Director of the Service for Foreigners’ Affairs Slobodan Ujić said that this service was capable to register all illegal migrants.
(FENA)
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