GENEVA: The mass expulsion of migrants from Greece to Turkey under a draft EU-Ankara deal to ease the migrant crisis would be “illegal,” the UN warned Thursday, as some of the bloc’s own ministers also criticized the plan.

While EU countries squabbled over how to cope with the continent’s worst migration crisis since World War II, UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the proposed deal with Turkey raised “a number of very serious concerns”.

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