19 countries to give United Nations 1.8 bln Dollars for refugee assistance

Basha, who has cousins fleeing from Syria to Europe, said refugees can be a valuable asset to the region.

Labor law loopholes and expired hajj visas make counting refugees in the Gulf states hard, but “Saudi Arabia says it has taken in more than 2.5 million Syrians since the outbreak of the conflict, while the United Arab Emirates says it has granted residency permits to 100,000 Syrians“, The Christian Science Monitor reported earlier this month.

For years, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have hosted millions of refugees from Syria’s civil war.

Countries farther from the conflict are also realizing that additional support is necessary to solve what CNN describes as “the worst refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide more than 20 years ago”.

Their culture and ethnic composition is more cohesive (relative to Germany, France and other West European countries) which they are not willing to risk by allowing culturally different refugees in large numbers along with fear and suspicion about the radical Muslims (it is hard to distinguish radicals from others). Separately, from the meeting, Japan also announced that it would provide around 1.4 billion euros to assist Syrians and Iraqis displaced by conflict and for building peace across the Middle East and Africa.

“And in the light of the Syria crisis, this means Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan”. Between the worldwide Rescue Committee (IRC) and Catholic Community Services (CCS), the two resettlement agencies in the state, as many as 1,100 refugees are starting new lives each year, on a path toward citizenship in five years and rebuilding their lives and contributing to society. The president’s commitment to expand resettlement from 70,000 to 85,000 refugees in fiscal year 2016, including 10,000 Syrians, is a step in the right direction, but it fails to be close to an adequate response and underestimates the ability and social conscience of our country.

“While it is important that the USA continues to help those in need of refuge, we can’t ignore the serious threat … terrorist organizations pose to our homeland security”, said Miller. “It is critical to helping people where they are, so they are not forced to take perilous journeys on fierce seas or entrust their welfare to human smugglers”. Earlier this month, U.S. Reps.

The foreign ministers of the G7 and the participating countries in a statement called “on all members of the worldwide community to scale up their humanitarian assistance”. But that will not be true this year.