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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Number of Syrian refugees surpassed the two million people ,


Number of Syrian refugees surpassed the two million people ,

Number of Syrian refugees surpassed the two million people , the UN agency UNHCR refugee affairs on Tuesday , warning that the world faces the greatest threat to peace since the Vietnam war .

In a statement , the UNHCR said an increase in the number of refugees almost tenfold in the past 12 months . Syrian refugees across the border to Turkey , Iraq , Jordan and Lebanon .

Every day an average of nearly 5,000 men , women and children fled to neighboring Syria . The number of those living abroad over two million people .

That represents about 10 percent of Syria's population , according to the UNHCR . Approximately 4.25 million people are estimated to have been looking for places that are relatively safe in the country . The figure nearly a third of all Syrians who flee abroad .

When compared with the number of Afghan refugees during the country's peak kemalut two decades ago , the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said , " Syria has been a major tragedy of this century - the humanitarian catastrophe that no comparison in recent history . "

Speaking about the acceleration in the crisis , he said , " What is shocking is the first one million refugees leave Syria in two years . A second inn! Million in the last six months . "

In a press conference in Geneva , Guterres noted that as many as six million people sought refuge in the country due to the war .

" At this particular moment , this is the highest number of people seeking refuge in the world . And if people look at the height of the crisis in Afghanistan , we have a number of people who seek protection are very similar . "

Guterres , a former Portuguese prime minister , said the crisis in Syria has threatened peace and security in the world . " I'm sure , no smaller than what we have seen in other crises that we have noted since the Vietnam war .

Uprising in Syria against the government of the family of President Bashar al- Assad over the past four decades has turned into a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people and caused the massive displacement .

It raises a difficult burden borne by the host country to accommodate the refugees .

In late August about 716 000 registered Syrian refugees in the process in Lebanon, 515,000 in Jordan , 460,000 in Turkey , 168,000 in Iraq and 110,000 in Egypt .

"The wave of human suffering caused by the conflict has other bad effects , " said the actress who became ambassador to Syria UNHCR , Angelina Jolie .

" The situation continues to deteriorate , the number of refugees increased and some neighboring countries could be dragged down," said Jolie , warned that " the world faces the risk of feeling quite satisfied about the humanitarian catastrophe Syria , " according to Reuters .

A study published in the daily Al- Watan on Tuesday said if the war on Syria stops and reconstruction begins now it takes about 73 billion U.S. dollars to restore the condition of the country .

Citing property expert Yussef Syria Ammar , in the report , the fighting and sabotage infrastructure during the conflict partly or wholly destroying 1.5 million residence .

Newspaper , which is close to President Bashar al - Assad , adding that if the reconstruction starts now will require 10,000 buildings , 15,000 trucks , cement mixers and 10,000 around six million workers .

By Yussef statement , the job will cost about 73 billion dollars .

Based on data Obesevator Syria for Human Rights , more than 110,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict emerged in March 2011, including more than 40,100 civilians .

Chronic spark violence , hundreds were killed in alleged gas attack on August 21 that shocked the world and blamed Western powers and Arab states on the Assad regime . Damascus denied the claim .

United States and France consider military action in Syria after the alleged gas attack AFP .

Swedish Migration Board decided Tuesday that all Syrian refugees come to Sweden to become permanent residents due to the deteriorating situation in their country .

" Conflict , if you do not want to be too harsh , has been getting worse . We believe it will not end any time soon , so we have made changes to the conventional , " says Anders Danielsson , the Director General of the Migration Board , which was cited by the Swedish newspaper , Dagen Nyheter .

" According to international law , they must have a permanent residence and it was a decision that we have made , " said Danielsson .

The decision means that about 8,000 Syrians who have a temporary residence permit in Sweden can live forever and also bring their family to Sweden , according to Xinhua - which monitored Reuters on Tuesday night .

Sweden has become the first country in the European Union ( EU ) which gives permanent residency to the Syrian refugees , local media said .

One year ago , gave Sweden Syrian refugee residence permit for three years . However , because Sweden does not have a diplomatic mission in Syria , the refugee family had to go to neighboring countries while 1,600 Syrian refugees have applied to bring their family to Sweden , the report added .

The number of refugees to be offered protection in Sweden decided each year by the Government of Sweden , the Swedish Migration Board has been given the task to make decisions regarding settlement and permanent residence permit .

 Syrian leader Bashar al - Assad on Monday warned that a Western military strike would risk triggering a " regional war " in the " Gunpowder Keg " Middle East , in an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro .

He also said France would face a " backlash " if it took part in the plan of the United States -led military action in response to allegations of chemical weapons attacks by Assad's regime last month , AFP reported .

"The Middle East is a powder keg , and the fuse is getting shorter , " said Assad told the newspaper correspondent in Damascus , in a rare interview with Western media .

" We can not just talk about the Syrian response , but what can happen after the first attack . Nobody knows what will happen , " said Bashar .

"Everyone will lose control of the situation after keg of gunpowder exploded . Chaos and extremism will spread . There is a risk of regional war . "

Assad also said France , which has said it is ready to support Washington in response to the threat of military attack alleged chemical weapons attack August 21 , should consider the consequences of such actions .

" Anyone who works against the interests of Syria and its citizens are the enemy . French people is not our enemy , but their state policy hostile to the Syrian people , " he said .

" As far as the French state policy hostile to the people of Syria , his country will be ... There will be an impact, a negative , of course , in the interests of France . "

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