- Title: UN chief Ban calls for halving of numbers of displaced by 2030
- Date: 23rd May 2016
- Summary: VARIOUS OF PERFORMERS
- Embargoed: 7th June 2016 10:50
- Keywords: Turkey U.N. humanitarian summit
- Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: United Nations
- Reuters ID: LVA0064J130W7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday (May 23) called on governments, businesses and aid groups at the U.N.'s first world humanitarian summit to commit to halving the number of displaced civilians by 2030.
The two-day conference in Istanbul seeks to develop a better response to what the U.N. has called the worst global humanitarian situation since World War Two, with an estimated 130 million people now in need of aid.
The summit aims to mobilise funds and get world leaders to agree on issues ranging from how to manage displaced civilians to renewing commitments to international humanitarian law.
In his opening remarks, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's open door policy would not change and Ankara would continue to harbour Syrians fleeing the war-torn country.
Erdogan has been one of President Bashar al-Assad's most vocal critics and sees his removal as essential to ending Syria's war. Turkey is sheltering nearly 3 million Syrian refugees at a cost of around $10 billion since the start of the Syrian civil war. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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