Vulin: European Human Rights Court decision doesn't apply to Serbia

Migrants walk on train tracks after leaving a camp on the border with Slovenia in Spielfeld, Austria, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. Thousands of people are trying to reach central and northern Europe via the Balkans but often have to wait for days in mud and rain at the Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian borders. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

European Court of Human Rights' decision that EU states can return migrants to those EU countries which they originally entered does not apply to Serbia.

Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said this on Thursday, observing that this was the case because Serbia is not an EU member.

"We are here to help, but we are also very much capable of protecting the country and of not allowing it to become a parking lot for migrants. Instead we only take care of these people in accordance with the law," Vulin said in Nis, southern Serbia, where he visited...