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Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria has detained 25% more illegal immigrants in 2010 year on year, the country's Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has stated.
"In 2010, we caught 1186 illegal immigrants, which is a 25% increase in comparison with 2009. They have been mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran," Tsvetanov said before foreign pundits in Sofia.
Bulgaria's Interior Minister clarified that most of the immigrants have tried to cross the Turkish-Bulgarian border.
Tsvetan Tsvetanov was also positive that Bulgaria will have covered the technical criteria for the Schengen Agreement by March 2011.He has pointed out that Bulgaria is equipped with the 6 fastest patrol boats, which operate in the Danube river, as well as the most state-of-the-art thermovision cameras in the Balkan peninsula, which are used to detect illegal immigrants hidden in the luggage departments of vehicles.
On Saturday, three brand new border police helicopters worth a total of EUR 29 M were received by Bulgaria worth a total of EUR 29 M. They were purchased from the Anglo-Italian aircraft manufacturer AgustaWestland.
On this occasion, Tsvetan Tsvetanov and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov expressed their certainty that Bulgaria is ready to be a reliable Schengen external border.
However, on Friday, experts from the Brussels working group on Bulgaria and Romania's Schengen accession concluded that Romania and Bulgaria – but especially Bulgaria – have not met yet the technical requirements to join the borderless Schengen Area.
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