Mr. Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, the Minister of Marine and Aegean as well as Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe stated today that Niels Mouiznieks should be well informed before rushing to make judgments.

According to an announcement by the Ministry, Mr. Varvitsiotis had a telephone conversation with Mr. Mouiznieks, a comment in which social networking site had caused a letter from the Minister to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council If brasserie.

Niels Mouiznieks had expressed his “surprise” for the filing of the judicial authorities of the Pharmakonisi tragedy file. On the occasion of his comment, the
Minister told him that he should be well informed by the competent Greek authorities before making any judgments as “the objective for the protection of human life and human rights are commonplace.”

However, besides communicating with the Commissioner, Mr. Varvitsiotis met today with the Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Ambassador Laura Thompson.

The focus of the meeting was to manage the ever increasing migration of the sea borders of Greece, and the bleak prospects for their growth generated by conflict and instability in the Middle East.

According to the notice of the ministry, Mrs. Thompson informed the strategy and the procedures for the reception of irregular migrants and expressed satisfaction at the progress made in recent years in our country.

Indeed, it was agreed to immediately begin technical meetings between the two sides in order to improve the reception of migration flows on the basis of international standards of human rights, and the development of information actions by the Agency, to members of the Coast Guard, which serving in Port Authority, where the phenomenon of migration pressures is more intense .