(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) New York March 16 (Petra) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Tuesday called on countries to step forward and take in another 400000 Syrian refugees.
On his first visit to Washington since being appointed to head the UN refugee efforts Filippo Grandi said the world must do more to end the crisis.
"On 30 March I'm going to chair a meeting in Geneva at which I ask the international community to take 10 percent of all the Syrian refugees" Grandi said.
"Ten percent is a lot of people. It's more than 400000 people" he told reporters on the fifth anniversary of Syria's bloody civil war the UN official explained.
More than 4 million Syrians have fled their war-torn country since the conflict erupted and more than 6 million are displaced within its borders.
Neighboring JordanTurkey and Lebanon are struggling to cope with the exodus and the onward flow has created a political and humanitarian crisis in Europe.
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