



Frontex announced on Tuesday that based on preliminary data 23,000 seaborne migrants and refugees arrived in Greece last week.

Among the most common entry points for the more than 200,000 people that have entered Greece through the seas in 2015 has been the Greek island of Lesvos in the Eastern Aegean sea. The island of 86,000 residents currently has 12,000 migrant and refugees awaiting to leave for mainland Greece, according to Greek newspaper “Kathimerini”.

LesvosNews.gr reported on Tuesday that there are 6,000 migrants and refugees located at Lesvos’s port at the city of Mitilini. Amid this situation, two units of riot police have been called to the island.

Greek passenger ships are continuing their routes from these islands to the port of Piraeus. 4,230 migrants and refugees from Lesvos are expected to disembark to the Piraeus port later today.

The TERA JET ship left Lesvos earlier in the day with 1,730 passengers. The Eleftherios Venizelos passenger ship, which has recorded multiple journeys around the Greek islands in the past few days for this purpose, will leave later in the day with 2,500 more refugees and migrants on board.

Pavlopoulos Urges Collective Response

The President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos reiterated the necessity for a European summit on the migration crisis during a meeting he had with Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Petros Moliviatis on Tuesday.

“It is a security issue but especially a humanitarian issue. Europe cannot overlook it given the beliefs and ideal that it has,” he said and noted that this is a collective problem, not just a Greek one.



