UN calls on countries to keep border opens for Syrian refugees January 17, 2014 - 18:14 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The UN refugee agency's chief has renewed a call on all nations to keep their borders open to Syrians fleeing their country, saying Syria's neighbors should not be "left alone" to cope with the influx, the Associated Press reports. More than 2 million people have been uprooted from their homes in Syria's civil war, many scattered in refugee camps and informal settlements dotting neighboring Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres said during a meeting with officials from countries neighboring Syria Friday that the international community needed to assume "a true attitude of burden-sharing." Guterres said: "It is unacceptable to see Syrian refugees drowning and dying in the Mediterranean Sea or being pushed back from borders." Related links:  Top stories Another 10,000 fled Mosul after ISIS took control at the beginning of June and numbers dropped have fallen rapidly since. The announcement comes just two days after President Abdullah Gül confirmed that he would not seek a second term. In the report, the Observatory said its activists on the ground have the names of 5,641 rebels who have been killed in infighting. Both polls have Selahattin Demirtas, the expected candidate for Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party, on less than 10 percent.   Partner news |  Latest news FIFA rejects calls to move 2018 World Cup from Russia  FIFA issued a statement saying it "deplores any form of violence" and questioning the purpose of relocating the sport's showcase tournament.Turkish PM inaugurates $4bn high-speed train link (video) "Twelve years ago, a fast train was nothing more than a dream. We are now a country which makes its dreams come true," Erdogan said.French soldiers secure black box from Air Algerie jet wreckage site One of two black boxes was recovered from the wreckage in the Gossi region of Mali near the border with Burkina Faso.Russian Central Bank warns of inflation risks increase Earlier this month, however, there was a spike in consumer prices, largely explained by the indexation of tariffs from July 1. |
