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The President of the Republic Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, today, commented on Turkey's encouragement of thousands of migrants to cross the Greek or the Bulgarian borders. 

In his remarks to reporters, at the Presidential Palace, in response to a question as to whether there is an organized plan by Turkey to send migrants to Cyprus, and invited to comment on a ministerial meeting on the flows of migrants to Cyprus, President Anastasiades said that «with everything that is taking place at the Greek borders, with everything that we have dealt with up until today with regard to the flows of migrants from Turkey, and given that Cyprus is the leading country with respect to the number of asylum seekers in terms of their ratio to the population, we are concerned and want to examine the measures we can take to ensure that the demographic character of our country is not distorted, while, at the same time, not ignoring the human anguish.

There is no need for me to make any further comment, and given that everything is recorded with regard to the thousands of those people who are encouraged by Turkey (to cross) at the Greek or the Bulgarian borders.»

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