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EC Drafting Migrant Readmission Agreements With Morocco, Pakistan

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European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said that EC is preparing readmission agreements with Pakistan and Morocco for migrants posing as asylum seekers.

A translator shows documents to Afghan migrants during a roam by members of The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), at the Jules Ferry reception centre near the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, on January 14, 2016. - Sputnik International
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BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The European Commission (EC) is preparing readmission agreements with Pakistan and Morocco for migrants posing as asylum seekers, European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said Monday.

"We are working right now with third countries on signing readmission agreements. I was recently in Pakistan, I was in Morocco," Avramopoulos said at a press conference, adding that an action plan is active with Turkey.

Irregular migrants outside the asylum framework "have to go back home," he reiterated.

Refugee registration centres in Greece and Italy will step up efforts to discern economic migrants from refugees, Avramopoulos added.

Over 1.2 million irregular migrants have been detected crossing the EU border last year, according to the European external border protection agency Frontex.

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