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    Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights elects Chairpersons at inaugural meeting

    2012-10-16

    Warsaw, 16 October 2012 — At its inaugural meeting at Frontex’s Warsaw headquarters today, the agency’s newly-formed Consultative Forum on Fundamental Rights elected its first two Co-Chairs. Ms Aydan Iyigüngör, of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) and Stefan Kessler of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) will serve for one year as Co-Chairs representing EU Agencies and NGOs respectively.

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    Situational update: Migratory situation at the Greek-Turkish border

    2012-10-03

    The numbers of migrants crossing the Greek-Turkish land border dropped from over 2000 a week in the first week of August to little over 200 in the second week. This is the direct effect of increased surveillance and patrolling activities by the Greek authorities, which included the deployment of an additional 1800 officers along the Evros river at the beginning of August.

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