Number of fake asylum seekers reduced

BELGRADE - Nenad Banovic, president of the Commission tasked with monitoring the visa-free regime, stated on Wednesday that the number of fake asylum seekers from Serbia has reduced since the beginning of the year, including the number of those seeking asylum in Germany, where the problem was the most acute.

In January 2014, 1,776 citizens sought asylum in Germany, and it is encouraging that the number is in decline, Banovic said for Radio and Television of Serbia.

Once Bundestag confirms the government's decision in June, there will be no more motives for the departure of bogus asylum seekers to this country since, among other things, they will get less money, he said.

“The adoption of the law in the German Bundestag mid-June and putting Serbia on the list of safe third countries will eradicate any possibility of further problems which we might have with the visa-free regime abuse,” he said, stressing that putting Serbia on the list of safe third countries will be a recognition for the country's efforts.

He said that the number of EU asylum seekers in other EU countries is insignificant.

Speaking about asylum seekers in Serbia, Banovic said that there are no registered cases of asylum seekers from Ukraine.

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