The Minister of Immigration and Asylum referred to the irregular migration bill and what it will provide for
“The reaction of the Turks was expected,” said Minister of Migration and Asylum, Makis Voridis, for the announcement of marine spatial planning, while stressing that Greece’s position is now clear towards Turkey.
“Something that had not been done for 20 years, this government has been doing,” the minister said of maritime spatial planning and noted that it is important in environmental. “We finally have the anthropogenic uses and specific areas defined. We are interested in our seas and our environment, fishing, and fish farming. It is an important development part that had not been done for many years, ”he said.
On the geopolitical impact he said, “It is also clean, because Greece now has an official place, which determines itself what it considers to be its continental shelf. It’s something that hadn’t happened until yesterday. ” And he continued: “The reaction of the Turks was expected. What is a qualitative difference and credited to our government is that Greece was not saying anything while Turkey was saying different things. What happened is that Greece said. Any differences will be resolved where they can be resolved. It will be Hague, it will be the agreements, it will be other things … The given is that Greece has a clear imprinted position. ” Asked if Athens is afraid of some intervention by Donald Trump, Mr Voridis replied “I don’t think it is possible”.
At the same time, he also referred to the bill coming for the returns of irregular immigrants, which, he noted, is tightened. “I met yesterday with Vasilis Kikilia, as we have common strategic goals. Among the objectives of overall government policy is the effective border guard and prevent illegal immigration. And this is a battle that the port gives us every day, “said Makis Voridis, who noted that” over 150 traffickers have been arrested in the first four months. They capture over one day. “
For irregular immigrants and the coming bill, the minister said that “they are illegal, it is not that they have forgotten some paper, they are illegally entering, violating our law on legal entry into the country. The answer for this, fortunately is a European policy and Europe has moved to the positions that Greece has always supported. The positions are that we need to develop and broaden our return system. When one is not legally in Greece, either he has no asylum or a residence permit, he must be returned either to his place of origin or in the country from which he came, since this is a safe country. “
“We have to strengthen the whole return mechanism and is one of the key jobs we have to do. Yesterday we finished a first processing on the law on returns. We make the law stricter. One issue is time and another issue is the most effective application of administrative measures. This means that the illegal detention should be detention in order to be removed. The administrative restriction can last up to 18 months. We make this whole system stricter at a legal level. He has a lot of work, ”he concluded, he concluded.