Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Iraq, Montenegro, Pakistan, Serbia, Syrian Arab Republic, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, World
STATISTICS AND HIGHLIGHTS
- UNHCR and partners learned of 150 irregular arrivals: 93 from fYR Macedonia, 51 from Bulgaria and six from Montenegro.
- The number of asylum seekers waiting to be admitted into Hungarian “transit zones” increased after Hungarian authorities’ halved daily admission from some 60 to some 30 asylum seekers. As a result, on average 418 asylum seekers, predominantly women and children, were waiting for admission in the open, without shelter or sanitary facilities. In the last three days, 100 were admitted into Hungarian asylum procedures.
- In Belgrade between 340 and 480 refugees/migrants were assisted by UNHCR and partners in parks on near the bus/train station. At the end of the reporting period, Krnjaca Asylum Centre (AC) hosted 237 refugees/migrants without referral letter from the authorities.
- 113 (33 on 16/05; 38 on 17/05 and 42 on 18/05) persons expressed intent to seek asylum, bringing the total in May to 455 and for the whole of 2016 to 2,994 (statistics courtesy of the Ministry of Interior).