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Czech Republic mulls providing financial aid to Serbia over migrant crisis

Xinhua, November 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Czech Interior Ministry wants to donate 20 million crowns (0.8 million U.S. dollars) to Serbia to help tackle the migrant crisis, reported local media Friday.

The financial aid, which the government must yet approve, would be spent on the purchases of off-road and transport vehicles for Serbian border police, the ministry said.

The Czech government has already sent 10 million crowns to Serbia in 2015. Out of the funds, 6 million crowns went to the Serbian commissariat for refugees and migration, while the rest was used for the purchase of vehicles and technical equipment of border patrols.

In 2016, Prague sent 20 million crowns to Macedonia, 5 million to Greece and 2.5 million to the admission and transit centers along the Balkan migration route. (1 U.S. dollar = 25 Czech crowns) Endite