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Czech PM Sobotka says impossible to accept migrant quotas

Published: 13 Sep 2015 - 01:31 pm | Last Updated: 09 Nov 2021 - 12:53 pm
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Czech Republic's Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (C) visits Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem November 25, 2014.

 

PRAGUE: The Czech Republic cannot retreat from its stance rejecting mandatory quotas for European Union states to accept migrants from other countries, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Sunday.

"I think it is impossible to retreat (on quotas)... our position is firm," Sobotka said on public television talk show.

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