Slovakia should change its outrageous stance on accepting refugees based on their religion, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said Thursday.
On Wednesday, Slovak Interior Ministry spokesman Ivan Metik said Slovakia would admit 200 Syrian asylum seekers, on condition that they were all Christians, as, he said, Muslims would not be able to integrate into the country.
Jagland stressed that such blatant discrimination of refugees on the grounds of their religious beliefs needs to end.
Europe is experiencing a massive migration crisis, as thousands of people attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea, fleeing violence in their home countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
In late July, EU member states agreed to redistribute some 55,000 asylum seekers throughout the union in an attempt to resolve the migrant crisis.
(Sputnik)
20/8/15
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On Wednesday, Slovak Interior Ministry spokesman Ivan Metik said Slovakia would admit 200 Syrian asylum seekers, on condition that they were all Christians, as, he said, Muslims would not be able to integrate into the country.
Jagland stressed that such blatant discrimination of refugees on the grounds of their religious beliefs needs to end.
Europe is experiencing a massive migration crisis, as thousands of people attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea, fleeing violence in their home countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
In late July, EU member states agreed to redistribute some 55,000 asylum seekers throughout the union in an attempt to resolve the migrant crisis.
(Sputnik)
20/8/15
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ReplyDeleteLa Slovaquie se dit prête à accueillir des migrants, mais uniquement s'ils sont catholiques, a déclaré le porte-parole du ministre de l'Intérieur sur la BBC. "Il n'y a pas de mosquée en Slovaquie, comment les migrants musulmans pourraient-ils se sentir chez eux dans notre pays?", a-t-il ajouté.
Le porte-parole n'est pas le premier à faire ce genre de déclaration, le Premier ministre Robert Fico ayant lui aussi déjà associé migrants musulmans et risque terroriste.
Des discours plus ou moins similaires se font également de plus en plus entendre en Pologne, en Lettonie ou encore en Lituanie.
Le président hongrois a lui affirmé jeudi devant des recrues de l'armée que les frontières de son pays étaient "assiégées" par des centaines de milliers de réfugiés, faisant ainsi écho à la campagne anti-migrants de son Premier ministre Viktor Orban.
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