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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Memorandum on cooperation of Serbia, Hungary and Austria in fight against illegal migration

Belgrade, 16 November 2022

President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban and Chancellor of the Republic of Austria Karl Nehammer signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the three countries in Belgrade today to strengthen trilateral cooperation in the field of effective fight against illegal migration.

The document was signed in the Presidency of Serbia, within the framework of the second trilateral summit of the leaders of the three countries.

Previously Vucic, Orban and Nehammer held a meeting, after which a plenary meeting of the delegations of Serbia, Hungary and Austria was held.

At a joint press conference, Vucic said that an important document was signed in connection with the fight against illegal migration.

Our teams continue to work on concretising everything and we will soon start the action, certainly before the end of the year, stated Vucic and added that the number of illegal migrants has almost doubled compared to last year.

We want to move the defence border of Hungary, Austria and Serbia to the south, and later we will be ready to move it further south together with North Macedonia, thereby protecting and guarding Europe, but also protecting our country, the Serbian President said.

Nehammer also announced that Austria will send another 100 policemen to joint border teams and adequately equipped vehicles and drones.

I am grateful to both Serbia and Hungary for the fact that for the first time we will launch a project to deport migrants who are illegally staying in Serbia, said Nehammer, adding that Austria already has 96,000 asylum requests this year, which is a sign that the current asylum system in the EU is not working.

Orban said that 250,000 attempts to cross the border have been thwarted, and Hungary has invested €1.6 billion since 2015 in border protection.

The key country of European security is Serbia, and we are obliged to express our gratitude to her, said Orban.