Hollande told a press conference in Tangiers he had instructed his Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to defend the plan for mandatory quotas at a meeting of his counterparts on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday`s full summit of all 28 EU leaders.
"We will ensure that this mechanism is effective regardless of its terms, that commitments can be kept and that it`s not always the same countries who are receiving the refugees," the French leader said.
A number of eastern European countries, notably Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, have rejected the idea of accepting a share of migrants under national quotas that reflect populations and economic strength.
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