UNITED NATIONS: As the world faces an unprecedented number of refugees and a backlash grows in Europe, a top UN official is warning against the political push for quick fixes.
"It's a good lesson that inclusion, as opposed to exclusion, is a very good tool to sustain these responses," he said as world leaders met in New York for the UN General Assembly. "It doesn't work like that. We have to explain to public opinion that these are complex issues that require time, resources and different solutions," he said.
But Grandi said that solutions lay"upstream" and that by the time people are"at the shores of Europe, it's almost too late." "Many times they go and ask for asylum, even if they're not refugees, and this has created chaos and mismanagement," he said."Many will disagree and maybe they will not listen to me," he said."That's a basic duty of humanity - to rescue people at sea."The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says that a record of more than 110 million people are displaced around the world.
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