The “unacceptable”, as he characterized it instrumentalization of immigrants from Turkey, was scolded by the President of the Republic of Cyprus during the Summit in Brussels. According to the government representative of Cyprus, Marios Pelekanos, Mr. Anastasiadis also stressed the need for the EU to take effective measures to prevent such phenomena, both by Turkey and by any third country that exploits human suffering in an effort to reap foreign political benefits.
At the same time, Mr. Anastasiadis “informed his counterparts about the magnitude of the problem facing Cyprus due to the very high migration flows, which for a long time now, have made the Republic of Cyprus, with the difference in the number of political asylum applications a Member State of the EU by proportion of population “.
According to the government representative of Cyprus, Mr. Anastasiadis “also pointed out that today, the percentage of asylum seekers or already holders of protection status, reaches 4.4% of the population of Cyprus, when at the same time this percentage by proportion population, does not exceed 1% in the other front-line Member States “.
In addition, he noted that Nikos Anastasiadis underlined “that the vast majority of asylum seekers in Cyprus are persons from safe countries of origin, who arrived in the occupied territories of Turkey and from there were led to points along the ceasefire line. from where they then crossed illegally into the free areas “.
The Cypriot president “also referred to his recent letter to the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council, in which he described the dramatic situation in Cyprus and the unbearable pressure on the state and the Immigration and Asylum Services, as well as what is required on the part of the EU to alleviate the problem “.
Finally, Mr. Anastasiadis stressed that the implementation of the EU-Turkey Declaration on Immigration towards Cyprus is “extremely important”.
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