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British Prime Minister David Cameron has accepted UN High Commission on Refugees’ entreaty to accommodate the most vulnerable refugees from war-torn Syria.
The UNHCR – the UN refugee agency – is appealing for Western countries to accept and resettle 30,000 of the individuals stuck around Syrian region.
Mr. Cameron has claimed that U.K. would “play the right role” in the wake of Syrian civil war.
In the beginning, U.K. was not among the eighteen countries that are part of the program.
However, Labour leader Ed Miliband has asked to stage a debate and vote on coming Wednesday to respond to MPs’ concerns regarding the issue.
During the Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr. Cameron has told: “We are the second largest bilateral aid donor.
“The money that British taxpayers are providing is providing food and shelter and water and medicine for literally hundreds of thousands of people. We are also fulfilling all our obligations in terms of asylum seekers, because we have taken over 1,000 asylum seekers from Syria in recent months.
We are also making sure where we can help very vulnerable children who are ill, including a child in a British hospital today, we take action there as well.”
Prime minister has expressed his doubts over UNHCR’s “quota system” for Syrian refugees, which he said could result in some countries thinking they had fulfilled their obligation by taking “a few hundred people”.
Mr. Cameron has also assured “if there are very difficult cases of people who don’t belong in refugee camps who have either been disabled by these attacks, or in very difficult circumstances, I’m happy for us to look at that argument.
“Britain always plays the right role in these desperate humanitarian crises.”
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