Migration & Asylum minister meets with high-level IOM officials in Athens

Migration & Asylum Minister Thanos Plevris met with Internationa Organization of Migration (IOM) Deputy Director General for Management and Reform SungAhLee and IOM Greece Chief of Mission Sanja Celebic Lukovac in Athens on Monday.

The meeting was held in a cordial climate and in the context of a courtesy call, a ministry statement said.

Both sides confirmed the mutual resgard and close cooperation developed over time between the ministry and IOM at all levels of the complicated isuse of migration, the statement underlined. The minister presented the government's basic guidelines to manage migration flows effectively, the contribution of the organization in raising the number of voluntary returns, and the boosting of legal migration.
In the context of the talk, the issue was raised of a special storage space for support and distribution of humanitarian aid material by IOM in Thessaloniki.

In addition, both sides agreed to continue the strong cooperation between them, for the benefit of a comprehensive management of migration challenges.

 

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