Solution must be found to eliminating migrant crisis' causes (Romanian PM)

BUCHAREST, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Monday that the European countries must find solution to eliminating the causes of the migrant crisis, not only its effects.

However, the prime minister stressed that Romania must be solidary to all the events in Europe, in terms of both obligations and rights, and should take a European attitude on this topic and avoid xenophobic and chauvinist rhetoric.

• Ponta told the media that the country has a reception capacity of 1,500-1,700 refugees at this moment.

• He complained about the injustice suffered by Romania over the Schengen issue.

"The same countries that now ask our solidarity on the issue of refugees have kept postponing us about Schengen," said Ponta, stressing that "if we're solidary in obligations, we're also solidary in rights."

"Under no circumstances can we receive on the short term more refugees than we can accommodate," Ponta stressed, adding that the decision on accepting the allocated quotas of refugees belongs to the Supreme Council for Country's Defence, the country's top-most executive body that can decide on security and defense issues.

• Presidential European policy advisor Leonard Orban, a former European Commissioner, said early last week that Romania is to receive over 1,700 refugees starting in November, at the request of the European Union.

According to him, these refugees will gradually be admitted in six centers in Romania for a two-year period.

The refugee-receiving issue has sparked great controversy in Romania. While the authorities stated the country would accept the refugees according to the reception capacity, former President Traian Basescu said Wednesday that Romania should refuse to take over immigrants to its soil. "This is not our game, not our problem," he told a local TV in a call-in, stressing that "there are others responsible in Europe who need to assume this problem, as they are among those who contributed to the chaos in states such as Syria and Libya."
  xinhuanet.com
7/9/15
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