The Ministry of the Interior announced today that the meeting on implementation of visa-free regime with the EU was held today and was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and Director of the European Integration Office Milica Delevic.
The statement says that the so-called problem of false asylum seekers from Serbia has been there for more than a year and that the Serbian government has taken a series of measures including the establishment of the Commission for monitoring the visa free regime with the EU, and that in future it is necessary to intensify measures to combat this.
In this regard it was agreed to take a series of new measures and specific activities at international and domestic level, including stricter control of Serbian citizens using visa-free travel regime for Western Europe.
Thanks to the activities of the Interior Ministry, the number of false asylum seekers has been reduced recently, the statement added.