The Conference on the management of the external borders of the European Union has been completed and a common Declaration has been reached, which includes some extremely important provisions for our country as well.
The Joint Declaration makes it very clear that the European Commission should proceed to support all Member States in the management of the external borders by all means, including the Green Line, and this is obviously extremely essential for Cyprus, in order to prevent illegal movements both through the external borders and through the Green Line.
Measures should also be taken to end the instrumentalisation by those third countries that are instrumentalising migration.
Returns should be strengthened and the position of the Interior Ministers is clear, indeed under the central supervision of the European Commission itself, and it has been decided that the mechanisms for the swift rejection of manifestly unfounded asylum applications, of economic migrants, should be strengthened, while at the same time supporting those who are genuinely in need.
And finally, the Ministerial Conference has reaffirmed our support for the suffering Ukrainian people.
For the text of Joint Declaration of the Conference click here .
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