Waves of migrants increase pressure on Greece
KIPI, Greece: Nowhere is the pressure on the European Union’s borders mounting as insistently as in this northernmost corner of the Aegean Sea across the river from Turkey.
With the help of smugglers, dozens of migrants breach this frontier daily on foot, in plastic boats, by swimming, or crouched inside empty oil tankers or secret compartments of trucks.
In its zeal to secure the border, Greece is being accused of serious lapses in human rights and ignoring treaty pledges that bind it to give haven to refugees claiming protection - rights established under international conventions.
“There are serious problems with the asylum system in Greece,” said William Spindler, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. “It doesn’t meet European or international standards.”
Would-be immigrants - Iraqis, Palestinians, Afghanis and others - are arriving here in numbers bigger than ever before. Their ranks are swollen by a “huge and very sudden influx” that began in September, according to Pangiotis Papadimitriou, the border monitoring officer for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Waves of migrants increase pressure on Greece
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