UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday sharply criticized border restrictions imposed by several states in the Balkans on refugees from countries other than Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.N. press office said.
Macedonia, Serbia and other Balkan states have implemented a new policy to filter the flow by granting passage onwards towards Western Europe only to those fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, who are seen as genuine asylum seekers rather than "economic migrants."
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