BUDAPEST (Sputnik) — Migrants from Serbia who were not allowed to enter Hungary after Budapest strengthened control over the Serbian-Hungarian border moved towards Croatia, according to reports.
“About 10 buses are moving along the Serbian territory to Sid [the town near the Croatian border]. Their drivers were ordered [by local authorities] to move without any stop,” M1 said Tuesday.
Earlier on Tuesday, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that Serbia did not want to turn into a "collection center" for the European migrants not allowed to enter the European Union and called on Brussels to hold a bilateral discussion to find a European solution on migrant crisis as soon as possible.
Ivanisevic's statement was the first declaration by a Serbian official about the readiness to send the army to the border in order to prevent a reverse flow of migrants.
Meanwhile, the United States is considering additional aid for Serbia to help the country deal with the current migrant crisis affecting Europe, White House announced in a release following the meeting between Vice President Joe Biden and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.
"The Vice President welcomed Serbia’s steadfast efforts to cope with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, and pledged to examine what additional support the United States could provide," the release read on Tuesday.
EU member states have been struggling with an unprecedented influx of refugees as hundreds of thousands try to enter the bloc, fleeing violence in their crisis-torn home countries. Many migrants use Serbia that is not a member state of the European Union as a transit zone to more prosperous countries.
