Refugee crisis: 'Exponential increase in global solidarity' needed – UN

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Refugee crisis: 'Exponential increase in global solidarity' needed – UN



"When managed properly, accepting refugees is a win for everyone."

GENEVA: -- The refugee and displacement crisis “demands an exponential increase in global solidarity,” the United Nations Secretary-General said in Geneva.

Ban Ki-moon told representatives from 92 countries, as well as governmental and non-governmental organisations, that more needs to be done to ease their situation.

“When managed properly, accepting refugees is a win for everyone,” he said.

“They bring new skills and experience to an ageing work force. Attempts to demonising them are not only offensive, they are factually incorrect. I call on leaders to counter fear-mongering with a reassurance and to fight inaccurate information with the truth.”

Ban acknowledged an end to Syria’s five-year civil war would be the ideal outcome, but until then urged the world to “step up, with concrete actions and pledges” to help the 4.8 million who have fled and 6.6 million who are internally displaced.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi outlined the UNHCR’s plan.

“Our aim is to find admission for at least 10 percent of the Syrian refugee population or 480,000 people over three years. This may seem a large number, but it is not, if compared to the number of refugees the neighbouring countries have been hosting. If Europe were to welcome the same percentage of refugees as Lebanon in comparison to its population it would have to take in 100 million refugees.”

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-31

[bangkapi]

Globalist governance is not good.

The UN is evil.

[bassman]

Wonder how many Sunni Muslims Ban Ki Moon will get his home nation of South Korea to take in. Doubt it will be any.

[Baerboxer]

Globalist governance is not good.

The UN is evil.

Thankfully Europe doesn't have to do what these clowns say.

Will this idiot of a commissioner be telling Russia, China and the US how many they must take in proportion to Lebanon? Or perhaps Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Muslim world?

Nope, just Europe where he knows stupid Merkel, puppet clown Juncke and silly ass Hollande will all clap for joy.

[RickBradford]

The refugee and displacement crisis “demands an exponential increase in global solidarity,” the United Nations Secretary-General said in Geneva.

It could equally be argued that the refugee crisis demands an exponential decrease in global solidarity, as it is the extraordinary muppetry of the European Union (aka Klub Merkel) which is at the heart of all the problems. As a very first step, they could declare that anyone who forces their way illegally onto European soil will never be granted permission to stay.

Still, you can't expect Ban Ki-Moon to see it that way. His only job is to invent global problems, those being the ones that supposedly require global solutions, and hence give his job some credibility.

[Ghostnigel]

There is no refugee crisis...according to the free world leaders, its all in your minds....555

[mrsomchai]

New skills? Like what? Shovelling snow? What else can they work without knowledge of local language or local education