The statements of German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière are "out of place" and "do not help" the situation, Alternate Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said in an interview with Praktorio 104.9 FM on Tuesday.

Greek authorities pre-registered 27,592 refugees and migrants for asylum in a period of two months, which the UN refugee agency’s director in Greece, Philippe Leclerc, described as a “world record”, during a press conference on Tuesday to present the results of the procedure in Athens.

Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas had a series of meetings with officials representing countries affected by the refugee crisis during the UNHCR Conference on Refugees in Geneva.