BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian officials called on world powers Wednesday to deal with the immigration crisis and urged aid to war-torn countries rather than building fences to keep migrants from crossing borders.
Aleksandar Vulin, Serbian Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Issues, told Rudaw that to solve the crisis the global community needs a unique approach to the war and conflicts that have destabilized North Africa and Syria.
“These people are not born to live in Germany or Serbia, they are born to live where they are born, as I am, but they cannot live there,” Vulin said.
He said there is no solution to the immigration crisis, but a peace and stability in such restive places could solve the issue of people wanting to leave.
“We absolutely have no hope that these problems will be resolved and that flow of these people will ever stop,” he said.
According to the UNHCR, about 7,000 mostly Syrian refugees, including many women with babies and small children, had crossed into Serbia over the past weekend.
In the last several months, thousands of exhausted refugees from the Middle East, Asia and Africa have crossed on foot from Macedonia into Serbia on their way to the other European countries.
