UNHCR urges countries to offer 100,000 Syrian refugees admission

UNHCR today called upon countries to make multi-annual commitments towards a goal of providing resettlement and other forms of admission for an additional 100,000 Syrian refugees in 2015 and 2016.

The The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had earlier called upon nations to provide solutions for 30,000 of the most vulnerable Syrian refugees through resettlement or other forms of admission by the end of 2014.

To date, 20 countries have offered more than 18,800 places towards this goal. “UNHCR remains confident that the 30,000 goal will be met by the end of the year through a significant number of submissions to the United States,” UNHCR spokesman Dan McNorton told journalists in Geneva.

UNHCR anticipates that in the coming years, there will be increasing numbers of vulnerable Syrian refugees who will be in need of resettlement