"The European asylum system is deeply dysfunctional, it works badly. Some countries make the necessary effort and the effort of many others is nearly non-existant," Guterres said in an interview with French TV and radio stations.
"With 4,000 refugees arriving in Europe every day... the system has become chaotic, nothing is in place that allows this to be handled in an efficient and humane manner," he said, calling for "effective reception centres" where migrants arrive in Greece, Italy and Hungary.
"It is a very serious problem... but on the scale of the planet it is not one of the biggest crises," said the former Portuguese prime minister.
"It is a manageable crisis if everyone agrees on a joint action plan."
- Guterres said the number of people displaced by conflicts had soared from 11,000 a day in 2010 to 42,5000 a day in 2014.
"That means there is an increase in conflicts in the world and that old conflicts have no solutions," he said, adding that he feared the situation would only get worse.
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said Saturday that 366,402 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe this year, with 2,800 killed or missing en route.
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Romania says can take maximum 1,785 refugees, rejects EU quotas...
ReplyDeleteRomania can take in a maximum 1,785 migrants in a voluntary scheme to help ease pressures on the European Union from an influx of refugees fleeing Middle East wars but opposes any compulsory EU quotas, President Klaus Iohannis said on Monday.
The European Commission has drawn up a new set of national quotas under which 160,000 asylum-seekers should be relocated to other EU countries from Italy, Greece and Hungary, an EU source said earlier on Monday. According to the plan, Romania was expected to shelter 6,351.
"We can treat this matter with calm and responsibility and be sympathetic with those countries having a large number of refugees. I don't think that mandatory quotas are the solution," Iohannis told a news conference.
"We can take maximum 1,785 people," he added.......Reuters......todayonline.com
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