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The Russian Foreign Ministry rejected on Wednesday the concept that it must share responsibility for the fate of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa.
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“The responsibility for providing assistance to refugees should be borne by those who instigated destabilisation in the vast region of the Middle East and North Africa,” the ministry said in a statement.
The formal response came after a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi in Moscow.