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Monday, September 7, 2015
Cyprus ready to take 300 preferably Christian refugees
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEU member Cyprus says it is willing to take in up to 300 refugees to help ease the crisis facing the European Union but prefers them to be Christians.
“We have already stated that 260, a maximum of 300, people can be taken in” by the small eastern Mediterranean island, Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos tells state radio.
“We would seek for them to be Orthodox Christians … that’s what we would prefer,” he says, adding that this would allow them to “integrate better” with the island’s predominantly Greek Cypriot population.
— AFP
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