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20 Slovak police officers depart for Greece to assist contain migration crisis

Xinhua, March 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Twenty Slovak police officers departed from Bratislava Airport on Monday en route to Greece in order to assist with coping with the migration crisis.

They will be deployed in Greece in Poseidon as part of the European Union's Frontex border guard operation. Their tasks will mainly involve registration and fingerprinting the migrants.

"Their mission will last a month and will be followed by a rotation, as is the case with other missions," announced Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak.

Slovak police officers have assisted in the protection of borders in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia and Hungary.

According to Kalinak, countries of the Visegrad Four (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) have called for migrants who don't enter the asylum procedure to be detained and sent back to Turkey if they entered from there, as is the basis of an agreement between Turkey and the European Union.

"When this starts working, we can say we will handle illegal migration better than last year," added Kalinak. Endit