▶️ Pakistani Prime Imran Khan and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrive at the first Global Refugee Forum, Tuesday, December 17.

👉 According to the UNHCR, both Turkey and Pakistan host the world’s largest number of refugees.

More than 2,000 government, U.N., and business leaders as well as representatives from civil society and humanitarian agencies are gathering in Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the first-ever Global Refugee Forum.

More than 70 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced by war, conflict and persecution. Among them are over 25 million refugees, who have fled across international borders and are unable to return to their homes.

Addressing the Forum, Turkish President Erdogan called on Tuesday for the resettlement of 1 million Syrian refugees in their homeland in “a very short period of time” and accused world powers of moving more quickly to protect Syria’s oil fields than its children.

Erdogan, whose country hosts 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population worldwide, said more than 600,000 should voluntarily join around 371,000 already in a “peace zone” in northern Syria from which Turkey drove Kurdish militia.

https://www.voanews.com/europe/global-refugee-forum-seek-greater-support-forcibly-displaced

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