UNHCR: 65.3 million people had to leave their homes and flee before the war – Polish Radio

The purpose of the visit of Ban Ki-moon on the Greek island was acquainted with the conditions in which the refugees. Of particular interest in the UN Secretary-General expressed the fate of 8.5 thousand. migrants who are waiting to return to Turkey.

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– I met with refugees who came from the most troubled places on earth. They survived the nightmare. And this nightmare has no end – he said after visiting one of the camps on the island.

He called on European leaders to be guided by the principles of humanity.

Earlier, Ban Ki-moon met in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Ciprasem.

From him he received a symbolic gift: a lifejacket, one of the many thousands found on the Greek coast.

– This is the hope of survival for the thousands of refugees who arrive on the Greek island after passing the Aegean Sea – pointed to the Greek Prime Minister.

UN Secretary-General praised the team for waking respect ‘hospitality and the solidarity shown Greece to people desperate, fleeing war and persecution. “

– Despite its own financial problems Greece was generous, saving the lives of refugees – he stressed.

Currently, the number of refugees on the territory of Greece estimates to 60 thousand.

Photo. PAP / EPA / Saitas

Lesbos – island symbol

According to the agreement concluded between the European Union and Turkey, the refugees who have entered illegally Greece, are transferred to Turkey. For every Syrian excreted with the EU on this basis has arrived legally in the EU other Syrian.

This solution has to be temporary and the aim is to discourage the refugees to illegal crossing to Greece and the destruction of the “business model” people smugglers.

Prior to the conclusion of this agreement, in March, an international organization on assistance for Doctors without Borders (MSF) announced that it was suspending activities in the refugee center on Lesvos due to the fact that the agreement between the EU and Turkey is “unfair and inhuman.”

writes AFP, Lesbos became island-symbol. Nearly half a million refugees went there last year, and the island for many of them has become the gateway of Europe.

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