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IOM Provides Reception Assistance to Persons Arriving in Slovenia under EU Relocation Agreement

Slovenia – On 12 May 2016 the first group of persons seeking international protection arrived from Greece to Slovenia under the EU relocation agreement. In total 28 people (5 families with 14 children and 4 single men) coming from Iraq and Syria arrived at Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport. The group was welcomed at the airport by representatives of IOM Slovenia and was further on taken by the Ministry of the Interior to the asylum centre in Ljubljana where their applications for international protection were submitted.