"Macedonia is neither considering nor has any chance of accepting to be a center for receiving migrants or a location for opening migrant camps," Minister of Internal Affairs Pance Toshkovski, who attended the International Conference of the Global Alliance to Combat Migrant Smuggling in Brussels, told AIM.
"In the past period, dust has been raised, especially by the opposition, although this has nothing to do with reality or logic, that Macedonia should represent some kind of central hub or suitable ground for accepting migrants, which would not be acceptable to the EU or to countries that are traditional friends of Macedonia, such as Great Britain," Toshkovski stressed.
He emphasized that something like this has neither been considered nor discussed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, nor would it be acceptable to the state.
"Here I would just like to emphasize what the President and the Prime Minister said today, and previously the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that Macedonia has neither considered, nor is considering, nor does it have any chance of accepting in the future to be any kind of central center or to open camps for migrants. There has been nothing like that, nor will there be," Toshkovski emphasized.
Regarding the EU legal regulations related to the Pact on Asylum and Migration, Toshkovski emphasized that within the framework of the Union membership process, what awaits the country will be the work of harmonizing our legislation with European directives in this field.
