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 Bell-412 copters are produced by Bell Helicopter, an American aerospace manufacturer, and it is unclear how they reached Baku. The plenum debate will take place on June 26 as an agreement reached between Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg. Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61. Israel’s parliament considered — then failed to adopt — a resolution that would recognize the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey   Partner news |  Latest news Armenian Genocide Memorial Cross vandalized in San Francisco  Someone appears to have spray-painted a message of solidarity with immigrant families on the Memorial cross.Azerbaijan launched an attempted subversive attack against Artsakh The Karabakh troops took the necessary measures to thwart the attack and threw the saboteurs back to their positions.ANCA urges inquiry into sale of U.S.-made copters to Azerbaijan "News of Azerbaijan deploying offensive U.S. arms requires a serious public spotlight and strong Congressional oversight," said Hamparian.PM aide not ruling out role for ex-President in Karabakh process (video) An aide to the Armenian Prime Minister has not ruled out that Serzh Sargsyan may become a special negotiator in the Karabakh process. |
