Meeting on refugee issue underway after the clashes at Moria

"A vessel will be leased to temporarily host refugees, mostly families, at the port of Mytilene until the hotspot fully operates again. Moreover, additional police forces will be sent to Lesvos," according to the secretary general of Aegean and island policy Giannis Giannelis.

Officials also discuss further solutions to improve the situation on Lesvos and other islands of the eastern Aegean that receive large flows of refugees and migrants that afterwards get trapped on the islands.

New clashes between groups of refugees and migrants of different nationalities broke out on Monday evening inside the Moria hot spot in Mytilene.

A group of migrants set fire to several parts of the camp offering the opportunity to a large number of migrants and refugees to flee. Authorities evacuated the area that hosts unaccompanied children and transferred them to a new facility.