MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz should set up bilateral agreements with North African countries to build special "protection zones" outside the European Union to send there migrants without grounds for asylum in Austria. We have to build protection zones on-site to prevent people from leaving their home region or from getting "caught" by dubious tractors [in make-shift camps]. in Northern Africa for people who neither have a reason for asylum in Austria nor can go back to their home country. We urge foreign minister to set up bilateral agreements, so that we can send these people back to their home countries," Lugar said. Europe is struggling to find a solution to a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 19, 2016 20:37 UTC