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Alarm as asylum-seekers shelter on Greek islands amid plummeting temperatures
09.01.2017 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Concern is growing for hundreds of asylum-seekers sheltering on Greek islands some in unheated tents amid freezing temperatures, UN Radio says referring to the
UN Refugee Agency UNHCR report.
As to the report, the situation in three Greek islands Samos, Chios and Lesvos is particularly bad. Thus, the UNHCR is calling for the authorities to speed up efforts to move vulnerable people from the islands to the Greek mainland, where facilities are much better.
As to the report, presently only 7,760 asylum-seekers have left or are due to leave Greece for relocation elsewhere in the European Union as part of a deal agreed by Member States in 2015.
This represents just 12 per cent of the total number of arrivals in Greece, a figure the UN Refugee Agency says is «unacceptably low».
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