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Tuesday 24 Nov 2015 - 10:47 Makkah mean time-12-2-1437
New York (IINA) – Saudi Arabia on Monday expressed deep concern over the increasing hostile, racist and inhuman rhetoric against refugees in general, and Muslim refugees in particular, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The Kingdom called on states and humanitarian agencies, civil society organizations and the media to abandon any racist speech and to contribute to raising awareness and responsibility in order to provide the necessary protection for the displaced and refugees who fled the fire of unfair authorities and terrorist groups.
This came in the Kingdom's speech delivered by Deputy Permanent Representative of the Saudi Mission at the United Nations Saad bin Abdullah Al-Saad at the UN General Assembly meeting on Global Awareness of theTragedies of Irregular Migrants in the Mediterranean Basin with Specific Emphasis on Syrian Asylum Seekers.
"We are facing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster since Second World War as the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) confirms that there are nearly 20 million refugees and 40 million displaced people, numbers that are increasing every day amid lack of funding and absence of appropriate mechanisms for protection," Al-Saad said.
"The Syrian crisis is the biggest humanitarian tragedy of the twentieth century. The number of forced refugees and displaced people is more than half of Syria's population as the number of forced refugees reached more than 4 million people, according to the UNHCR and the number of the displaced exceeded 7.5 million people, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs," he added.
"Syrian refugees fleeing to neighboring countries have been a major challenge in trying to meet the basic needs of the refugees, provision of shelter, education and health care in order to preserve the dignity of refugees and ensure their protection."
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is always ready to cooperate with various UN organs to deal with this worsening humanitarian disaster by working to provide adequate solutions to protect and provide appropriate financial support and provide support to countries receiving refugees," Al-Saad said.
He explained that "Saudi Arabia has received since the beginning of the Syrian crisis 2.5 million Syrian refugees and has been careful not to treat them as refugees or put them in refugee camps, in order to preserve their dignity and safety, and gave them complete freedom of movement, and awarded those who wanted to stay in the kingdom, who have reached hundreds of thousands, legal residence like the rest of expatriates, with all consequent rights to free health care, work and education as the number of Syrian students totaled more than 100,000 Syrian students receiving free education."
Al-Saad added that the "Saudi efforts have not been confined to receiving and hosting the Syrian brothers after their humanitarian tragedy in their country, but extended to include support and care for millions of Syrian refugees in their country's neighboring states - Jordan, Lebanon and other states. The efforts included providing humanitarian assistance in coordination with the governments of their host countries, as well as with international humanitarian relief organizations, whether through financial or in-kind support.”
He stated that the value of the humanitarian assistance provided by Saudi Arabia for the Syrian people amounted to about $700 million, including government aid and the popular campaign, launched in 2012 under the title of "National Campaign to Support Brothers in Syria."
In order to resolve the refugee issue, Al-Saad stressed the importance of addressing the root causes of the crises that forced them to seek refuge outside their home countries.
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