Interior Minister Nicos Nourris said on Sunday he expected EU sensitivity about external borders in other member states to be applied also in the case of Cyprus, in a bid to curb irregular migration.
In statements in Troulloi, a village in Larnaca district, the Minister, asked to comment about a fresh wave of migrant arrivals in the free areas of Famagusta, said October has been “a very bad month” with more than 1,500 arrivals of irregular migrants as of today, all of them through the buffer zone separating the Turkish-occupied areas from the free areas of the Republic of Cyprus.
The Minister expressed concern as the majority of migrant flows stem from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: Cyprus News Agency