雅典，10月1日——希腊周四表示，欧盟应建立一种紧急机制，以便在发生重大移民危机（如7月份数万人涌入西班牙休达飞地）时，能够暂时中止庇护申请。
ATHENS, Oct 1 - Greece said on Thursday that the EU should develop an emergency mechanism to temporarily suspend applications for asylum in major migration crises such as the arrival of tens of thousands of people in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in July.
希腊曾是2015-16年移民危机的前线，当时有超过一百万人从中东和非洲涌入欧洲。
Greece was on the front line of a 2015-16 crisis when more than a million people from the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe.
尽管此后入境人数有所下降，但近年来希腊爱琴海岛屿上的利比亚移民船只数量有所增加。
Arrivals have since dropped, although Greek Aegean islands have seen a rise in migrant boats from Libya in recent years.
移民部长萨诺斯·普莱夫里斯（Thanos Plevris）周四表示，欧盟的移民协议有助于遏制入境人数并增加移民遣返，但目前的措施不足以应对像休达那样的大规模涌入。
Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said on Thursday that an EU migration pact had helped curb arrivals and increase migrant returns, but that the measures taken so far were not sufficient to deal with emergencies such as the surge into Ceuta.
西班牙估计，7月下旬有超过7.2万名移民进入该北非飞地，尽管大多数人已返回，但仍有约1万人滞留。
Spain estimates more than 72,000 migrants entered the North African enclave in late July. Most returned but around 10,000 are still there.
普莱夫里斯在卢森堡出席欧盟司法和内政部长会议时表示：“在这种情况下，应加强边境监视并暂停庇护申请。”
"In such cases, there should be enhanced border surveillance and suspension of asylum," he said, arriving at a meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers in Luxembourg.
去年，雅典曾暂停处理从北非海路抵达的移民的庇护申请，并立法加快对被拒庇护申请者的驱逐程序。
Athens stopped processing asylum applications from migrants arriving from North Africa by sea for a few months last year and passed legislation to fast-track deportation of rejected asylum seekers.
希腊与德国、奥地利、丹麦和荷兰组成的“五国集团”表示，已就建立非欧盟国家的遣返中心达成具体步骤，作为欧洲更广泛推动增加驱逐和遏制非法移民努力的一部分。
Greece, along with Germany, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands, known as the Group of Five, said they had agreed on concrete steps towards establishing return hubs in a non-EU country as part of a wider European push to increase deportations and curb irregular migration.