EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER FOR MIGRATION HIGHLY EVALUATED THE ROLE OF BULGARIA

The migration crisis was the main topic in the talks between the European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, and Bulgaria’s ministers of interior and foreign affairs on 20th of September. Bulgaria will play a crucial role on the European stage with the opening of the new European border and coast guard service on 6th of October, the Migration Commissioner said.

In talks with Interior Minister Roumyana Bachvarova and Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov, as well as Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev, Avramopoulos said that neighbouring countries Bulgaria and Greece were on the front line of the EU external border and for this reason the good management of the situation with the refugee wave was very important. He praised the efforts of the Bulgarian government for dealing with this issue in close cooperation with the EU.

He said that Bulgaria was under pressure, but was not alone and the EU was standing behind it. “The evidence for this is that we are going to meet on 6th of October in Bulgaria at the opening of an entirely new European project: the border and coast guard service,” he said. Through this project, Bulgaria would begin to play a more important role in the protection of its borders and at the same time of the shared European borders. This was why it was decided a few days ago to give Bulgaria 160 million to assist the country in dealing with the migration crisis, Avramopoulos said. Bachvarova said that the new border and coast guard service was an enormous success for the European solidarity.

“The fact that Bulgaria is involved in these new and positive solutions is extremely important to us,” Bachvarova said.

After her statement at the UN high-level summit, Bachvarova emphasized that the Bulgarian position on the migration crisis was heard and included in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants adopted by all UN Member States.

Foreign minister Mitov said that thanks to the efforts of Bulgarian diplomats, the final document on migration included two very important elements, namely the obligation of states to work together for the signing of readmission agreements.It is very important in EU and UN to work namely for such arrangement of relations in order to avoid neglecting the legal frameworks in such large movements of refugees and migrants, he added.

He said that one of Europe’s largest problems was that with the movement of thousands of people at the borders, the impression was created that European governments lacked control over their own territories. Therefore, he said, the joint actions in the EU were focused on restoring control of its external borders.

Europe is one place with common borders, which have to be guarded by the joint efforts of all member states and that's the future of the integration processes on the continent, the representatives of the Bulgarian state were adamant

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