PM Tsipras to chair interministerial meeting on migration issues

The Coast Guard Admiral Athanasios Athanasopoulos and the Coast Guard deputy chief Nikolaos Patrinos will also be present at the meeting

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday will chair an interministerial meeting on the issue of increased migration flows, according to an official announcement.

The meeting, which will take place at 14.00 at Maximos Mansion, will be attended by Alternate Migration Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou, Alternate Civil Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis and Alternate Shipping Minister Theodoros Dritsas.

The Coast Guard Admiral Athanasios Athanasopoulos and the Coast Guard deputy chief Nikolaos Patrinos will also be present at the meeting, along with Aristidis Kalogeropoulos, special advisor to the Commissioner of Immigration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos.