13 November 2015, 13:02 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday at the EU-Africa migration summit in Valletta that the bloc would grant Ankara a total of $3.2 billion in assistance funds by the end of 2016 to boost border controls and improve living conditions in refugee camps.
"It will not necessarily work out," Vladimir Chizhov told Rossiya-24 television channel. "Turkish authorities do not appear to be enthusiastic about building camps and accommodating refugees, even at EU expense."
Turkey has been hosting some two million migrants, most of them from neighboring Syria. It has already received over $500 million, according to Merkel, to manage the migrant crisis. A summit between Turkey and the 28-nation bloc is expected to be held by the end of this year.
Turkey is a key transit country for thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. The European Union has been pressing Ankara to stem the outflow of migrants through its northern border into Europe.
