Great Britain will deport rejected asylum seekers to Macedonia in accordance with the plan to open “return centers” in the Balkans, the British newspaper Daily Mail announced this afternoon. According to the newspaper, Macedonia has formally started talks with Great Britain this fall. This kind of development has been happening since May, when Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Alkesandar Nikoloski, denied that Macedonia would accept illegal migrants who did not receive asylum in Great Britain.
As the newspaper writes, according to the proposal, Great Britain would pay Macedonia for every migrant it accepts. Migrants who were deemed too unsafe to remain in the UK, but cannot be sent and repatriated to their home countries (Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan…) would then have the opportunity to request asylum in Macedonia or to obtain work visas for work in sectors where there is a shortage of labor!
Macedonia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Aleksandar Nikoloski in May of this year, and before signing the Strategic Partnership Agreement with the United Kingdom, stated that there is no provision in the agreement for the opening of migrant camps.
“The best answer given by the ambassador to Great Britain is that there is no such thing. Of course, we will cooperate with the country in the fight against crime and corruption and the fight against migration. There is nothing else except the same agreement as with Frontex. The credibility of the British ambassador must not be disputed by anyone. The best denial for this topic is the months and years that are ahead of us,” said Nikoloski.
Great Britain is also in negotiations with Kosovo to open centers for the return of migrants, since Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina rejected the British proposal since these ‘migrants’ wreak havoc wherever they go, hence the reason the UK is trying to remove them from their territory.
According to the data of the British newspaper, this year 39,292 migrants in small boats arrived in Great Britain via the English Channel, which is an increase of 17 percent compared to last year.
