On Thursday, FYROM*** authorities said that they had declared a "state of emergency" at the southern border with Greece and that they would deploy army units to the area to help control the influx of migrants crossing the border, according to media reports.
"Due to an increasing pressure on the southern border… it is estimated that bigger and more efficient control is needed in the region where illegal border crossings from the Greek side have been massively registered," a government statement read, as reported by AFP.
Declaring a state of emergency legally allows for the "appropriate engagement of the army", according to the statement.
The government voiced hope that the army deployment will help to "increase security of the local population" and to improve the handling of migrants crossing the border from Greece.
The government declined to elaborate on how many soldiers would be involved in border control.
Migration crisis in Europe has increased over the past year due to the increasing flow of migrants from North Africa, the Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia.
According to the UN refugee agency, about 250,000 migrants have already come to Europe by sea routes.
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***[After the necessary corrections with the name "FYROM"]
***[GREECE recognized this country with the name "FYROM"]
***[UN resolution A/RES/47/225 of 8 April 1993]
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Riot police push back migrants trying to enter FYROM...
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Several thousand people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, many Syrian refugees, spent a cold night in no-man's land after FYROM yesterday declared a state of emergency and effectively sealed its southern frontier to migrants and refugees.
Riot police behind barbed wire fired tear gas to drive back an angry crowd demanding passage into FYROM and north to Hungary and the European Union's borderless Schengen zone.
Authorities in FYROM said official border crossings remained open, but they would "reduce illegal border entry to a minimum".
A Reuters reporter near the border town of Gevgelija said a column of riot police armed with tear gas and armoured vehicles had shut off passage for several thousand people.
"No more FYROM," one officer said in English to a Syrian man requesting passage.
The flow into Gevgelija, which has hit 1,500 to 2,000 a day, suddenly stopped.
The shutdown came after days of desperate scenes at the local railway station as thousands of people pressed to board trains to Serbia, young children being passed through open carriage windows..........rte.ie
21/8/15