歐盟移民專員呼籲開放邊境大綱

The European Union migration commissioner Dimitris AvraMopoulus is pleading with Balkan countries to open their borders to more than 13,000 refugees trapped for weeks on the Greece-Macedonia border, saying asylum-seekers fleeing violence in the Middle East deserve respect.

Hours before his visit to the overwhelmed camp at Idomeni, Greece, more than 1,000 refugees forded a fast-moving stream five kilometers west to cross into Macedonia illegally, with another 500 following also trying to breach the border.

Macedonia's Interior Ministry says steps are already in hand to improve security where the refugees crossed Monday.

The refugees at Idomeni are becoming more desperate as they struggle to secure sufficient food and medicine for their increasingly ill children. Many still cling to the hope the Macedonians will open the border, which was closed February 21, and other Balkans countries will follow, allowing them to be among the last to travel north before a provisional deal between the European Union and Turkey comes into effect that would return refugees who have crossed the Aegean Sea to Turkey.

Details of the deal, which has provoked the anger of U.N. refugee chiefs and rights groups, are to be finalized March 17. The U.N. refugee agency has warned any blanket return may violate international law and warns there is little sign of any let up in Syrian and Iraqi refugees planning to cross the Aegean.歐盟主管移民的專員阿夫拉莫普洛斯懇請巴爾幹國家向1萬3千多名被困在希臘和馬其頓邊境的難民開放邊境，並表示應給予逃離中東暴力的尋求庇護者應有的尊重。

阿夫拉莫普洛斯在走訪希臘的伊多梅尼難民營數小時前，有1000多名難民渡過西邊5公里外一條湍急的水流非法進入馬其頓，還有500人也試圖跟着闖過邊界。

馬其頓內務部表示，已經在難民星期一越境的地方採取行動，提高邊境安全。

伊多梅尼的難民們爲了給他們病情加重的孩子們找到足夠的食物和藥品而處境越來越危急。許多人仍希望馬其頓能重開2月21日關閉的邊境，而其他巴爾幹國家也會效仿馬其頓，從而使這些難民成爲歐盟和土耳其間一項臨時協議生效之前最後一批北上的難民。根據這一臨時協議，那些跨過愛琴海到達土耳其的難民將被遣送回去。

這一協議的細節將在3月17號最後確定。協議引起了聯合國難民署專員和人權組織的憤怒。聯合國難民署警告說，任何將難民一律遣返的做法都可能會違反國際法，並警告說，計劃穿越愛琴海的敘利亞和伊拉克難民並沒有減少的跡象。