Germany's support to solution of asylum-seekers issue

BELGRADE/BERLIN - Serbian State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior (MUP) Vladimir Bozovic asked in Berlin for Germany's support in the search for a solution to the false asylum-seekers issue.

On Saturday, Bozovic informed German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior Emily Haber about the work done by the Serbian MUP and other government institutions in charge of solving the false asylum-seekers' issue.

Haber promised support to the proposition for Serbia to be put on the list of safe third countries and countries of safe origin and for the procedure of resolving asylum requests to be accelerated as envisaged in the proposition of the amendments to the Law on Asylum which should be adopted this spring.

Bozovic said that Serbia is facing the problem concerning asylum-seekers and regular migrants coming to Serbia, as well as the problem of its own citizens who most frequently seek asylum in Germany and are abusing the institute of international protection.

He noted that over 99 percent of refused asylum requests were those filed by Serbian citizens, members of the Roma population and the Albanian national minority, which confirms that this is not political persecution but is exclusively abuse of the right to an asylum, the Serbian MUP released.

During his stay in Berlin, Bozovic conferred with Michael Tetzlaff, Deputy General Director for Migration, Refugees and Asylum.

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