YEREVAN, APRIL 23, ARMENPRESS. International Court of Justice Judge Joe Verhoeven said he finds the Turkey-EU agreement on jointly managing the refugee crisis not much of a glorious decision, for which however Europe doesn’t have an alternative today. According to him, this is one of the EU’s initiatives which is aimed at settling the issue. This was announced by Verhoeven during the “Against the Crime of Genocide” forum. “After multiple discussions the EU reached an agreement that Turkey will become a subcontractor in the refugee crisis settlement issue. This action is not so glorious, but in any case we told Turkey to commit to their obligations to have compensation”, “Armenpress reports him saying.

According to him, by contributing to the management of the migration waves Turkey gets hope that it will join the EU.

He said that in 2015, 627 thousand people moved to Europe to ask for temporary asylum via the UN refugee agencies. However, according to him, the migration waves harm the economies of the European countries, for which those countries are not ready for.