The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that 10,000 asylum seekers have been relocated from Greece to other EU member states.
Since the beginning of March 2017, 367 people left Greece for another EU country, bringing the total number of people relocated from Greece to 10,004.
The combined total of people relocated from Greece and Italy is 14,439 since the plan was launched in October 2015.
The greatest number of relocations in one month was in February with 1,200 resettled from Greece and Italy to 13 different EU member states. March 2017 is expected to total more than February’s record number.
The countries that have received the most asylum seekers are Germany (3,093), France (2,764) and the Netherlands (1,486), mostly from Greece.
The majority have been Syrians with 58 percent, then Eritreans at 29 percent, Iraqis with 10 percent and other nationalities accounting for 3 percent; 38 percent of relocations were women and 33 percent were minors.
IOM has so far assisted over 400 group relocation movements to 24 European countries participating in the programme.