Reiterating that the world now has the unavoidable responsibility of assisting millions of Syrian refugees, permanent representatives of the OIC Executive Committee in a statement made from the Saudi city of Jeddah last night urged neighboring nations to channel funding based on the principle of equal distribution of refugees.
According to figures from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 4 million people left Syria due to the war started about 4 years and a half ago, and Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt, all OIC member nations, have been the main receptors of the refugees.
The final communique of the meeting summoned by the OIC secretary general, Iyad Ameen Madani, also recognized that humanitarian needs in the Syrian territory are still huge and much more must be done, chiefly in direct assistance through the borders.
That Executive Committee, formed by the nations of the Islamic Summit Troikas (Egypt, Senegal, and Turkey) and the Council of Foreign ministers (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan), as well as Madani, expressed concern about the fate of Palestinian refugees in Syria.
Regarding that, they called OIC member nations to channel their humanitarian aids through that organization in order to strengthen the joint Islamic action, and assist Syrians and the nearly half million Palestinians who had to leave refugee camps in that war-torn country.
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