All European Union Member States facing a problem of illegal transit of migrants have dealt with it by placing physical barriers, patrols by special teams of security forces and using technology for early warning.
This is the same methodology, on the basis of a plan that was developed, that the Republic of Cyprus has chosen, after first clarifying in the clearest possible way at the political level that the Green Line is not our external border.
The measures were deemed necessary after the flows increased, first with the Evros crisis in March 2020. The situation started to deteriorate dramatically from September 2021, with Turkey since then systematically instrumentalising economic migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
We remind those who irresponsibly and undocumentedly attribute the increase in flows to the fence installation that in March 2020 there was no fence, while in September 2021 the length of the fence did not exceed 11 kilometres.
We live in a democracy and we are all judged by our positions and actions.
(EFYs)
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