28 October 2015•Update: 29 October 2015
WASHINGTON
The European Union has failed to deal with the humanitarian crisis faced by Syrian refugees, a high-level UN official said Tuesday.
At an event held by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on the refugee crisis, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said the world must take more responsibility because a refugee crisis exists not only in Syria, but also in Burma, Afghanistan, Sudan, Yemen and Iraq.
The situation in Syria has turned into a humanitarian crisis that European countries have neglected to adequately address.
"Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are the countries which mostly shoulder the burden of the Syrian refugees," Guterres said.
"If the international community continues to neglect refugees with these three countries, it will become inevitable for the problem to grow bigger."
