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Sunday 18 Oct 2015 - 14:20 Makkah mean time-5-1-1437
Pic: UN News Center
Rome (IINA) – After meeting with families of refugees at a reception centre in Italy on Saturday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the global community has to “stand with people who do not have any means” and provide basic necessities, such as education and sanitation, UN News Center reported.
“Having met all these family members – children and women – I was very much saddened but I was also very much heartened by the stories they told me,” Ban told reporters at the Centre Tenda Di Abramo in Rome.
“The stories were heart-breaking but at the same time, I really wanted to give them a sense of hope,” he added, noting that the warmth shown by the Italian people and others around the world and in Europe has been “very kind".
The UN chief said he knows that European countries are facing many challenges, but insisted that this is not a “crisis of numbers.”
“If there is any crisis, this is a crisis of global solidarity,” he underlined. “If they show global solidarity, compassionate leadership, as the same human being, I think there is nothing that we cannot overcome.”
As a first measure, the secretary general said it is important to give refugees life-saving support, such as education and sanitation, which as basic necessities “that every human being needs".
Ban also highlighted that the UN is mobilizing all necessary resources, which he said, is why he convened a summit meeting on migration and refugees in September on the sidelines of the General Assembly.
The Secretary General said he counts on the compassionate feelings of leaders around the world.
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