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Refugees stand in queue Tuesday to receive food distributed by a non-governmental organization at a refugee camp in the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni.
Refugees stand in queue Tuesday to receive food distributed by a non-governmental organization at a refugee camp in the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni.
IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says border restrictions being imposed in Europe to stem the flow of migrants “are not in line with international law or with common human decency.”

Ban made the comments Tuesday in Madrid after Greek police said up to 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the country’s Idomeni border crossing in deteriorating conditions.

The Idomeni crossing has become a key flashpoint in Europe’s migration crisis. Several nations led by Austria have imposed refugee caps and border restrictions over the past 10 days, creating a huge backlog of migrants in Greece.

Ban says he’s concerned about the restrictions along land migration routes, adding that “every asylum seeker has the right to his or her application to be considered individually.”


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