FM Waszczykowski: Polish refugee policy based on 'safety criteria'
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
30.11.2015 08:52
The policy on how many refugees Poland will accept of the 7,000 pledged by the former government will depend on issues of safety, Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said.
Macedonian riot policemen stand in front of the wired fence at the borderline between Greece and The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, near Idomeni village, northern Greece, 29 November 2015. Photo: EPA/SOTIRIS BARBAROUSIS
The Minister spoke to the PAP news agency spoke ahead of a summit in Brussels on Sunday dedicated to issue of the migration crisis.
Waszczykowski stressed the need for demarcation between international law describing the categories of “refugees” and “immigrants”.
“In the case of refugees, Poland – like many countries in the world – has international obligations which require it to consider a request for asylum,” he noted.
The Minister added that Europe also has to deal with “a huge group of economic migrants”.
“These are people even not only from the Middle East, but above all also from the Balkans, the countries which may be poor, but do not pose any danger.” (rg/di/rk)
Source: PAP