It also foresees the need to set up transit camps near the Iraqi border for as many as 500,000 people.
Recently, Ms. Merkel salvaged her government after agreeing with her Bavarian partners to set up transit camps for migrants at the border with Austria and to refuse some.
But, by the end of this year, the government wants to set up transit processing centres (or TPCs) outside the European Union: secure centres to which asylum-seekers arriving in Britain, or claiming asylum after they arrive, would be sent and where their claims would be processed.
It includes developing a system of UN "safe havens" in regional protection zones to cope with asylum seekers fleeing areas of global conflict or natural disasters, as well as the scheme to set up "transit processing centres" for those who try to get to Europe to claim asylum.
The organization has also set up transit isolation units in parts of Sierra Leone.
Hungary today also declared a state of emergency in two southern counties bordering Serbia and set up transit zones to handle asylum requests from migrants along the frontier.
A protection specialist has been mobilized to start the identification of un-identified minors and to assist in setting up a transit centre to re-unite lost children with their families.
This has involved setting up identification services, transit care, family tracing and repatriation programmes, and providing psycho-social support.
Mr Singh may also deal with the topic of trade which, smuggling aside, heavily favours India, to Bangladeshi ire.Most important, however, is a deal on setting up a handful of transit routes across Bangladesh, to reach India's remote, isolated north-eastern states.
They now have about 80 volunteers and four full-time employees, and have helped set up a transit camp.
