“So far, the fall of the ‘Assad regime has not finalized some trends in refugee flows,” the Minister of Immigration and Asylum said.
The Greek government holds the stance of immigration after changing the situation in Syria, as the Minister of Migration and Asylum Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos reiterated at the Thessaloniki Summit organized in Thessaloniki, the Association of Industries of Greece and the Delphi Forum.
“So far, the fall of the ‘Assad regime has not finalized some trends in refugee flows and we have no exacerbation of flows nor a tendency to return refugees,” Mr Panagiotopoulos said, making it clear that so far, the EU has frozen the asylum process. “We in Greece,” he continued, “we have frozen decisions – we accept applications and conduct interviews – but no decisions are issued because we are waiting for the new data to be consolidated” as, according to the Minister of Migration, “the majority of Syrian refugees in Greece in Greece They were seeking asylum by promoting as a basic reason that they are being prosecuted by the ‘Assad regime.’
“We are waiting for the new data to change our attitude, if necessary, but this will be done in the European light,” said Panagiotopoulos.
Immediate impact on the change in the regime in Syria was observed in Cyprus where, as Mr Nikolas Ioannidis, Deputy Minister of Immigration and International Protection of the Republic of Cyprus, said, about 1600 Syrians withdrew the asylum request from October and more than 1000. have returned to their country.
“We are particularly concerned with the issue of Syria because the largest number of foreigners who have applied for international protection comes from Syria,” Ioannidis said, while noting that Cyprus also has to deal with Turkey’s immigration tooling.
For the Egyptian ambassador to Greece, Omar Amer Youssef, who participated in the debate, “The Middle East is going through difficult times and, through a political vision, a fair peace solution to the region should be found. Egypt hosts about 10 million immigrants, last year we only accepted more than a million Sudanese while continuing our role to maintain the truce in Gaza, ”the Egyptian ambassador said.
Source: Skai
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