Britain is to spend another £100million helping Syrian refugees trapped in camps around the Middle East, David Cameron announced today.
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David Cameron will press European leaders to deport more economic migrants and pay more aid to countries neighbouring war-ravaged Syria to help ease the migration crisis.
In a recent meeting with dignitaries and community leaders from Irbid Governorate, His Majesty King Abdullah highlighted the need for further worldwide support to the Kingdom in addressing the refugee issue.
The staggering waves of people forced to flee a ravaged and destroyed Syria – some 4 million in number – are now seeking a place of safety where they can begin to have some semblance of stability and peace.
It comes as the European Union voted to back a plan to relocate 120,000 refugees in the continent through a quota scheme which Britain will not take part in. As recently as this weekend, Austria saw 20,000 migrants from the Syrian war come across its border with Hungary.
On Wednesday, assembly members in the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg will debate a proposal to seize several properties including parts of Riehmers Hofgarten, an ornate bloc of houses from the late 19th century.
The Food Programme has warned it needs £154 million to keep its scaled-back relief effort going through November and Mr Cameron was expected at an EU summit in Brussels to back European countries coming forward to meet some of this shortfall. We cannot expect other countries to act, or to get a diplomatic solution that the whole of Europe can sign up to if we continue to ignore this growing issue. “Enforcing a plan on a country that is strongly opposed to it is not solidarity, it is compulsion”.
Mr Hollande enquired as to where Mr Cameron’s portrait was, in response to which the Prime Minister pointed to the space next to Gordon Brown, saying: “I will be here – they don’t go up until you’re finished”.
The daily Pravda’s front page said: “Slovakia suffered a loss in its fight against the quotas”.
“With an average of 6,000 persons arriving every day on European shores, this requires a massive investment”, she said.
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The visits aimed to have a first-hand look at the conditions of Syrian refugees in the Kingdom, mainly in refugee camps, and the need for increasing global support to Jordan as a safe host country for refugees, in a bid to minimise illegal crossings of migrants into Europe. From there they are walking into Austria.
