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Medecins Sans Frontieres Calls on Bulgarian,
Greek and Serbian Authorities
to Provide Aid and Protection to Refugees


Geneva, February 20 (BTA) - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) calls
on the authorities in Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to provide
aid and protection to refugees, the international medical
humanitarian organization said on its website on Thursday.

"The Dublin regulation usually requires asylum seekers
irregularly entering the EU to apply for asylum in their first
country of entry; however, migrants and asylum seekers are
increasingly fleeing substandard conditions in Greece and
Bulgaria, crossing the Balkan Region on their way to Northern
Europe," the MSF said.

"The EU member states have to acknowledge the outrageous
consequence of their policies and to improve the current asylum
procedures, reception conditions, and lack of integration which
are failing thousands of refugees and asylum seekers," said
Stuart Alexander Zimble, MSF's coordinator in the Balkan Region.


He also said: "Greece, Bulgaria and the EU must improve access
to asylum procedures and reception conditions for newly arrived
asylum seekers." PK/DD


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