United Nations, United States (AFP) - Germany on Tuesday committed to
provide additional funding of 100 million euros (about 113 million US
dollars) for the UN agencies in order to increase aid to refugees in
their areas of origin.
"The agencies are caring for refugees -especially the World Food
Program and refugee agency PBB- dramatically underfunded," said German
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters before a meeting
of Group of Seven (G7) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
"I think we have every reason to try everything so that people (IDPs)
do not leave the countries neighboring Syria as they face food
shortages," he said.
Steinmeier urged other G7 members, European countries and the Gulf
states to participate in improving their financial contributions.
"They will only do this if we give an example first, and this is the
reason we came to this meeting with a promise to provide an additional
100 million euros to the UN international agencies that take care of the
refugees," said Steinmeier was quoted as saying by AFP.
Germany holds the presidency of the G7 which consists of a large
democratic countries including Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and
the United States.
Germany is also invited Austria, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab
Emirates to join the meeting.
Germany has been at the forefront in handling migrant crisis Europe by
welcoming refugees who fled the brutal civil war in Syria.
Many
refugees said that they had fled to Europe due to the crisis of money
that worsen the situation of deprivation in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, -
the country's main residence while four million Syrians flee.
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