Light in the role and funding of non -governmental organizations (NGO) to get involved in circuits slave The Minister of Maritime and Island Policy Vassilis Kikilias requested at his recent meeting with the Minister of Migration and Asylum Maki Voridis.
According to sources from the Ministry of Maritime, at least 7 files are allegedly involved in NGOs in the facilities of slave circuits that They relate to illegal migration of immigrants to Greece and to Europe.
As the same sources say, examining these cases is due to their complex nature at various levels of justice.
With these facts, it is necessary to manage funding to ensure the legality and transparency of NGO action in the North Aegean.
It is noted that during the meeting of the two ministers discussed The possibility of imposing sanctions on non -governmental organizations involved in acts of illegal trafficking of immigrants, while the Minister of Immigration and Asylum Makis Voridis pledged to reform the institutional framework in order to cut funding to NGOs involved in illegal trafficking of immigrants.
‘We have consulted that there will be this update and, If a legislative initiative is needed Towards this direction of the Ministry of Immigration, it is something we will do immediately, ”Mr Voridis said.
“We have 18,500 miles of coastline and marine borders to be kept, and this is the work of the Coast Guard and my own competence, While I asked the Chief Minister to see in their entirety of these files, who are at various levels of justice and pending in relation to the role of NGOs in Greece, in terms of the legality in which they need to move and the way in transparency in funding, “said Maritime Minister Vassilis Kikilia.