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Downing Street Says No Plans to Scrap UK-French Deal on Border Control in Calais

© REUTERS / Charles PlatiauMigrants stand under makeshift shelters in the northern area of the camp called the "Jungle" in Calais, France, September 6, 2016
Migrants stand under makeshift shelters in the northern area of the camp called the Jungle in Calais, France, September 6, 2016 - Sputnik International
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The UK and French governments are committed to their agreement on border control and have no plans to alter the deal amid calls to move the UK border back to the Kent coast due to high influx of refugees, a Downing Street spokesman said Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Thursday, French presidential frontrunner Alain Juppé urged Paris to move UK border from the French port of Calais to Kent, overruling the Treaty of Le Touquet, the 2003 French-UK agreement allowing British officials to check documents of people trying to cross the English Channel in France.

"The Home Secretary [Amber Rudd] has had two meetings now with her French counterpart at which this issue has been discussed, and it's been made perfectly clear that both the French government and the British Government are committed to the Le Touquet agreement. Nothing has changed and there is no plan at all for it to be torn up," the spokesman told reporters.

French police use water canons against participants during a march in support of migrants and refugees in the so-called 'Jungle' camp in the French northern port city of Calais on October 1, 2016. - Sputnik International
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The UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s office official also added that both London and Paris had assessed the Le Touquet agreement to be working and not expected any plans to alter it.

Since last year, Calais has served as the location of a large migrant camp – the so-called Jungle – notorious for its dreadful living conditions. Thousands of migrants, many from the Middle East and North Africa, are living in the Jungle, located not far from the Channel Tunnel, in the hope of reaching the United Kingdom.

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