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Frontex to send 600 experts to Greece to help tackle refugee crisis

Frontex to send 600 experts to Greece to help tackle refugee crisis

The EU's border agency Frontex will deploy 600 experts in Greece who will be used to carry out external border control and management and registration of incoming migrants and refugees, its executive director Fabrice Leggeri told a senior Interior ministry official on Tusday.

Leggeri spoke with Alternate secretary general of the Interior Ministry Tzanetos Filipakos in a teleconference held earlier today to discuss ways to tackle the refugee crisis in central and eastern Aegean.

The chief of Frontex noted that this is a historic moment as the agency has never send so much personnel in one country.

On his side, Filipakos thanked him for the cooperation and assistance and stressed the importance of coordinated action in all levels of the refugee crisis.