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Migrants: EU signs agreement with Serbia on border managemen

Frontex to take control of migratory peaks

20 November, 19:24
(ANSA) - BRUSSELS - NOV 20 - The EU Commission cleared the cooperation agreement between Serbia and Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, to cope with migration and crime along the EU's external borders. The deal was signed today in Skopje, on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans Forum on Justice, in the presence of the European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, the Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, and his Finnish counterpart Maria Ohisalo, who holds the EU presidency. The agreement calls for Frontex troops to be deployed on the border between Serbia and EU member countries and to carry on joint operations against illegal migration and cross-border crime, particularly in the event of sudden peaks in migration flows. The final word on the entry into force of the agreement will lie with the European Parliament. Similar cooperation agreements between Frontex and the Western Balkans have already been signed with Albania and Montenegro, whereas agreements with Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are being finalized. (ANSA).

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