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EU: UN-EU RESOLUTION ON MED: Questions and answers: High Representative/Vice President
11 June 2015
"I'm afraid that what I can say now might not convince them to stop. Especially because the people that are leaving are coming from crisis areas, from conflict areas. And I'm afraid that there is nothing I can say to someone leaving from Syria, or from areas of conflict nowadays. What I can say to them is we, as Europeans, I add personally, finally, understood that we have to take this seriously, and together as Europeans. On different elements - preventing and managing conflicts - the main point is Syria there, but not only. Majority of the people come from the Horn of Africa."
See the full text:
High Representative/Vice President (pdf)
See also: Commission: Strategy Note on
"Legal Migration" (pdf)