Articles tagged with: Syrian Refugees
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Saturday, 20 Apr, 2013
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the latest “Friends of Syria” meeting gets underway in Turkey, the head of the UN’s refugee agency warned yesterday that the conflict in Syria may well have created the worst refugees crisis in the agency’s history.
The UN’s high commissioner for refugees, António Guterres, told London’s Guardian newspaper that the fighting in Syria was the worst humanitarian disaster since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and was already more destructive than the con...
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Saturday, 6 Apr, 2013
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Funds for United Nations efforts to assist refugees from the fighting in Syria are running dangerously low, according to officials at the organization.
“The needs are rising exponentially and we are broke,” said Marixie Mercado, a UNICEF spokeswoman, at a conference in Geneva on Friday.
“By the end of 2013, we estimate there will be 1.2 million Syrian refugees in Jordan—equivalent to about one-fifth of Jordan’s population,“ she added.
The number...
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Friday, 29 Mar, 2013
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The United Nations envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said yesterday that he was opposed to plans to arms the Syrian opposition, and emphasized the need for...
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Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—As a neighbor to both Syria, a state engulfed in a civil war, and Israel and the occupied West Bank, the kingdom of Jordan is more subject than most to...
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