CRI听力:4 Eastern European Countries' Leaders Urge Cooperation to Solve Migrant Crisis

Tens of thousands of migrants, primarily from war-torn areas of Syria and Afghanistan, have arrived in Europe in recent months.

In Hungary, migrants have broken out of a border camp and fled from a stranded train and set out on foot for Austria.

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslave Sobotka says at a press conference in Prague that a functioning migration policy is of utmost importance.

"The present situation is a challenge for all EU countries and we need a fast reaction and common reaction of the European Union. Europe must have functioning migration policy which will ensure dignified behaviour with those who have the right for asylum. On the other side, the European return policy must function here so that we can return back those who do not have the right for asylum."

However, the leaders also reiterated their opposition to any EU plans for mandatory migrant quotas for member states.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said any attempts to establish automatic mandatory mechanisms are not acceptable.

"The interior ministers always have this in mind during talks. Here are four EU countries saying very clearly: we want to guarantee the outside borders of the EU. We want because only in this case we can ensure free movement of the people inside the EU."

Polish Prime Minster Ewa Kopacz said member states should take their own decisions on how to help with the migrant crisis, and only in this way can protection to those migrants be ensured.

In the meantime, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that he welcomed the prospect raised by Czech and Slovak interior ministers to create a train corridor for migrants travelling to Germany from Hungary.

The corridor would be considered if Hungary and Germany could reach agreement on how to deal with the influx of migrants.

Pressure on EU leaders has intensified this week with the heartbreaking pictures of the body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi from Syria on a Turkish beach, after he drowned with his brother and mother while trying to cross to Greece.

Antonio Guterres, the UN refugee chief, says there's a dramatic situation for Syrian refugees.

"Not only they have no hope that a political solution will come soon for their country. But their living conditions are deteriorating. They are not allowed to work, except in a clandestine way. And the levels of assistance have not only not increased, but are in effect decreasing. And this creates a desperate situation that is forcing more and more people to move onwards."

Guterres made the comments at a press conference in Geneva calling on European countries to take in some 200 thousand refugees as part of a 'massive relocation programme'.

For CRI, I'm Xie Cheng.