ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — The latest news as hundreds of thousands make their way across Europe in search of safety and a better life. All times local.
3:50 p.m.
Macedonia’s Security Council has ordered the army to start preparations to possibly erect a fence on the border with neighboring Greece to restrict the flow of migrants.
Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov presided at a Security Council meeting late Saturday following the attacks in Paris. Officials are concerned that if other countries where asylum-seekers are headed restrict their flow, Macedonia will end up with a longer stays for a higher number of migrants.
Ivanov has said that more than 8,500 migrants have entered the country unregistered through illegal border crossings from Greece.
A statement issued after the meeting says the Security Council “emphasizes that a fence would not be aimed at closing the border, but channeling and limiting the flow of the migrants.”
The statement also says “this step would be taken as a last resort.”
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2:55 p.m.
A top European Union official says the bloc’s refugee policy does not need to be overhauled in the wake of the Paris attacks and is urging world leaders not to start treating asylum-seekers as terrorists.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Sunday that “those who organized these attacks, and those who carried them out, are exactly those who the refugees are fleeing.”
Juncker told reporters at the G20 summit in Turkey that “there is no need to revise the European Union’s entire refugee policy.”
Poland’s incoming government leaders declared Saturday that they would not accept refugees without security guarantees.
Juncker urged them “to be serious about this, and not to give in (to) these basic reactions I don’t like.”
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2:35 p.m.
European Union President Donald Tusk says signs have emerged that attacks on moderate opposition forces in Syria are creating a new flood of refugees.
Tusk told reporters at the G20 summit in Turkey on Sunday that such attacks will “only result (in) a new wave of refugees. And we have some signals that in fact it’s started.”
The U.S and its allies say Russian warplanes in Syria have mostly targeted moderate opponents of President Bashar Assad instead of their declared main target, the Islamic State group.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the allegations.
Tusk did not mention Russia by name but said that the Islamic State is “the real enemy of the free world, not the moderate Syrian opposition.”
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