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Skopje - 3 March 2016
1. Macedonian government building
2. Macedonian flag
3. Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki sitting at his work desk
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikola Poposki, Macedonian Foreign Minister:
"We have few thousands of migrants that are right now at the Macedonian border. We are waiting for the numbers of migrants that can be received in the destination countries in Western Europe and this is going to determine the daily quotas of migrants being allowed to enter Macedonian territory. Essentially we are in a situation where more and more migrants are arriving in Greek territory and the registration has to be done at our border and determine which are the eligible asylum seekers that can proceed the road."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikola Poposki, Macedonian Foreign Minister:
"We will need their cooperation in order to avoid any kind of dramatic evolution (of the situation) on the ground; on the other side we have to make sure that in order to provide human and safe treatment it is better to host migrants in the reception centres, rather than putting them in tents a few hundred metres (yards) from (the) Macedonian border. This is really not a solution; it might help creating the pressure and a sense of urgency, but if we really care about these people they should be hosted in reception centres that can host such large numbers of people and we are talking several thousands now."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikola Poposki, Macedonian Foreign Minister:
"Our interest is not to close the border to Greece. We have clearly quite a lot of converging interests with Greece, it is our neighbour. The last thing we would like to see is a big mess happening across our border in Greece. On the other side, it is clear that the concept that has been present during the last year - which was, as you described, open borders - has its limits. And it is clear that the absorption capacity of migrants in mainly receiving EU member states such as Germany, Austria, Sweden and others has reached certain threshold where it cannot continue next year with the same pace. Therefore, I think it is pretty much unavoidable that there will be stricter border controls."
9. Poposki at his desk
10. Macedonian government building
STORYLINE:
Macedonia's foreign minister said on Thursday it was not in his country's interests to completely close its border with neighbouring Greece.
But Nikola Poposki, speaking to The Associated Press in Skopje, said the concept of open borders across the Europoean Union "has its limits".
He spoke as a UN official on migration warned on Thursday that 70,000 people were set to be "trapped" in Greece in the coming weeks because Macedonia and some other European countries were shutting their borders.
Some 10,000 people are blocked at the border between Macedonia and Greece.
Macedonian authorities have said they will only let in as many people as the next country on the route - Serbia - takes.
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