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@sceptical guy wrote:
I don’t know where they’ll be put, nor does anyone else. But 2000 is nothing anywhere.
You’re so wrong …. again
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Portsmouth isn’t a telephone box, though, Reason.
Is it more than rumour that Portsmouth has been chosen???
the 20,000 accepted by the UK is a pathetic figure.
And how do you propose to deal with a million refugees, with more on the way, Reason??
fook me its sunday and this fooker is off again!!! Boring James Hunt.
Reason isn’t that bad, somer.
I didnt say anything about reason.You did pmsl @ you
How about the Saudi’s take some ?
well, if you can’t handle a discussion…turn it into a (poor) joke.
Now that somer has made his invaluable contribution, anyone with a serious point to make about a million and more refugees heading into Europe, with more to follow?
Gulf states are under fire from human rights groups for not doing more for Syrian refugees as Syria’s neighbours struggle to house those fleeing across their borders and the EU grapples with its worst refugee crisis since World War II.
The UN estimates that more than 4 million Syrians have fled the country’s civil conflict so far, with 3.8 million of these having temporarily sought refuge in just five countries: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq (mainly Kurdistan) and Egypt.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Turkey has taken in almost 2 million Syrian refugees while Lebanon has registered 1.1 million refugees within its borders – an influx that now accounts for 20 percent of the Lebanese population. Jordan, likewise, has received almost 630,000 asylum-seekers, Iraq close to 250,000 and Egypt another 132,000. Many other Syrians have crossed into these countries but have not been officially counted.
But while Syria’s neighbours struggle to accommodate the influx, an Amnesty International report from December noted that the six Gulf states — Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar — “have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees”.
Trapper, it’s the Saudi-US-UK alliance which is one of the causes of the exodus, but the Saudis have no idea of human rights – a bit like some people here. But an international agreeemtn may enforce some standards on their regime.
The US is willing to take 100,000, I read.
And you do see international agreement as the way forward – good.
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