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It appears not to be fair to group Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait with the other states you have listed. while Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt have taken
by caoilte 10y ago
It appears not to be fair to group Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait with the other states you have listed.
while Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt have taken in around 5 million refugees, and boatloads of the destitute are making their way to Europe, the Gulf states have taken only a few hundred refugees, according to data from the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR).
http://www.dw.com/en/arab-monarchies-turn-down-syrian-refugees-over-security-threat/a-19002873 http://www.dw.com/en/arab-monarchies-turn-down-syrian-refuge...
- dalke 10y agoI thought that was because Saudi Arabia doesn't call them refugees but "Arab brothers and sisters in distress". The number of such people is quite contentious, if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Saudi_Arabia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Saudi_Arabia is any evidence. There may be 500K such people "in distress." FWIW, unlike the EU countries, Saudi Arabia isn't signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention.
- caoilte 10y agoThanks for pointing that out. It's clearly been very heavily politicised.