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Bulgaria adopts national migration, integration strategy

Xinhua, June 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Bulgarian government on Wednesday adopted a five-year national strategy on migration, asylum and integration, taking into account the changed situation after the refugee crisis, officials said.

"The main objective of the strategy is to create a political framework for building comprehensive and sustainable legal and institutional basis for successful management of legal migration and integration," the cabinet said in a press release.

The other goals include prevention and counteraction of illegal migration, and identification and provision of care for people who have sought and received international protection, the press release said.

According to the strategy, by 2020, Bulgaria hopes to develop an asylum system corresponding to the growing number of applicants for international protection, turn migration and mobility into positive factors for economic and demographic development, and effectively combat illegal migration and human trafficking, the cabinet said.

According to data from Bulgaria's State Agency for Refugees (SAR), 45,212 foreigners have sought asylum in Bulgaria since 1993, of whom 7,144 in 2013 and 11,081 in 2014, while in the first five months of this year the number was 5,720.

Of the total number, 9,192 asylum seekers were granted refugee status, and 9,142 received humanitarian status, SAR data show. Endit