Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister for EU Integration Bozidar Djelic said Sunday that a series of amendments to some laws is going to turn organization of illegal migration into a crime in order to stop the flow of fake asylum seekers from Serbia into the EU.

"We have ground for this in the Palermo Declaration, which is about illegal migration and which our country has signed," Djelic said at the opening of an exhibition entitled How I recognize Europe in Serbia.

The Serbian police will conduct more rigorous control on the border, checking if travellers have a return ticket, insurance, enough money and what their destination and reason for the journey are, Djelic added.

"The people of Serbia have twice as many passports than ever before and over 2.5 million citizens have used the freedom of movement right," he stressed.

Punishments should be there, but there should also be prevention, because it is a fact that most fake asylum seekers come from the Roma community, Djelic remarked. He said that, as the head of the national council for Roma inclusion, he would organize a meeting in the coming weeks to seek support from Roma leaders.