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IANS | 26 Jul, 2017
The Arab League (AL) warned against "the increasing waves of migration to the Arab region", an official said.
"The
Arab countries hosted in 2016 more than 26 million Arab migrants
compared to 26 million in 2015, without counting those passing through
the region for short time until reaching Europe," said AL Assistant
General Secretary of the social issues Bader el-Din Alali on Tuesday
The
region is facing unprecedented challenges, Alali said in his speech to
the extraordinary meeting of the Arab regional consultation on
immigration and asylum, Xinhua news agency reported.
"The situation is deteriorating every year along with the growing burden of the hosting countries," he said.
The
AL diplomat reiterated that the Arab region is "the source of migration
and the first among countries hosting migrants", adding that the
Palestinians constitute half of the world refugees.
"Egypt plays a
pioneering international rather than regional role in dealing with
migrants, refugees and trafficking efficiently at all levels," Mohamed
Ghoneim, Egypt's assistant Foreign Minister for Refugees and Human
Trafficking, said.
Egypt is working with a growing number of
countries to settle the crisis, and promoting development as the main
motivation for illegal migrations, Ghonem said.
According to the
UNHCR, Egypt hosts 187,838 registered refugees, mostly from Sudan, Syria
and Libya, with the number of the unregistered believed to be much
higher.
Besides masses of refugees in Egypt fleeing from the
war-torn Syria and other countries, illegal migration via Egyptian
Mediterranean Sea shores also rose over the past few years because of
the difficult economic conditions in the financially-struggling Arab
country, where unemployment has hit 12.5 per cent according to official
reports.
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