EUROPE-MIGRANTS/CAMERON JORDAN Britain to receive Syrian refugees from Jordan - Cameron

Record ID: 139898

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/CAMERON JORDAN Britain to receive Syrian refugees from Jordan - Cameron
  • Date: 14th September 2015
  • Summary: AMMAN, JORDAN (SEPTEMBER 14, 2015) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EXTERIOR OF ROYAL PALACE FLAG KING ABDULLAH OF JORDAN AND DAVID CAMERON ENTERING ROOM KING ABDULLAH AND CAMERON SEATED (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, DAVID CAMERON, SAYING: "We will be taking 20,000 Syrian refugees straight out of refugee camps here in Jordan and elsewhere, and give them a home in our country. I absolutely agree with your majesty that we need to continue to face up to the global threat of terrorism which we see in such evidence with ISIL, Daesh in Syria, the threat they pose to the whole region and in Iraq." MEETING UNDERWAY (SOUNDBITE) (English) KING ABDULLAH OF JORDAN, SAYING: "We have had reassurances from the Israeli government that this would not happen. Unfortunately these are reassurances we've heard in the past, so I'd like to state in your presence that if this continues to happen, actually as of today, anymore provocations in Jerusalem will affect the relationship between Jordan and Israel, and Jordan will have no choice but to take action." JOURNALISTS VARIOUS OF KING ABDULLAH AND CAMERON
  • Embargoed: 29th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Jordan
  • Country: Jordan
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVABPF5HF88E3WN3Q7TQRWNBGMPG
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday (September 14) the UK will receive 20,000 Syrian refugees from Jordan and other countries, during an official visit to the region.
    "We will be taking 20,000 Syrian refugees straight out of refugee camps here in Jordan and elsewhere, and give them a home in our country. I absolutely agree with your majesty that we need to continue to face up to the global threat of terrorism which we see in such evidence with ISIL, Daesh in Syria, the threat they pose to the whole region and in Iraq," Cameron said during a meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan.
    Earlier on Monday, Cameron visited a UN refugee camp in Amman, where he met Syrian children forced to flee their civil-war stricken country.
    The Syrian war, which has killed 250,000 people since 2011, has forced half of all Syrians from their homes, creating 4 million refugees and displacing some 7.6 million more within the country. It is the worst refugee crisis since World War Two.
    Tens of thousands of refugees have been trekking from Greece via the Balkans and Hungary towards western Europe. The crisis has prompted some European leaders to announce a greater refugee intake, led by Germany which expects an estimated 800,000 people to arrive this year.
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