Cyprus is in a state of disaster and desires motion to curb irregular migration to the divided island together with a suspension of asylum functions for individuals coming into illegally from the breakaway Turkish-held north.
That is what authorities spokesman Marios Pelekanos stated after a vital assembly on Wednesday chaired by President Nicos Anastasiades.
Of 10,868 arrivals within the first 10 months of 2021, greater than 9,000 had arrived via the porous “inexperienced line” – the legacy of a 1974 Turkish invasion and continued occupation.
The federal government emergency motion plan to be applied focuses on stricter supervisory controls and EU solidarity for the relocation of migrants to different international locations.
Pressing financial help in a bid to deal with the scenario can also be within the playing cards – similar to within the case of Lithuania and Poland.
Cyprus has been inundated with arrivals lately. Thus far this 12 months, inflows are 38 p.c up on the entire of 2020.
The federal government has already taken an more and more arduous line on asylum seekers whose quantity exceeds 4% of the native inhabitants.
Cyprus will put in a request to the European Fee for measures to be taken, together with probably suspending the examination of asylum requests from these coming into the island illegally, Pelekanos stated.
Beneath worldwide legislation, migrants have a proper to say asylum and it’s forbidden to ship potential asylum-seekers again to the place they might be at risk.