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Czech Republic, Germany to jointly help refugees in Jordan

Xinhua, November 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Within the framework of Czech-German strategic dialogue, the two countries agreed to jointly help refugees in Jordan.

Czech prime minister's adviser Vladimir Spidla and German Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Roth agreed in Prague on Monday that the two countries will start jointly helping refugees in Jordan in order to improve their living conditions and thus reduce the reasons for them to leave for Europe.

According to them, the cooperation on helping directly in the Middle East is one of the measures that may contribute to solving the migrant crisis.

Roth said they do not want to fight against the refugees, but against the causes of their mass departures. They intend to concretely contribute to this by a joint project in Jordan.

He said that the largest number of refugees currently are not accepted by the European Union, but by the countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.

EU countries should try to stabilize these countries, said Roth.

Spidla said the joint project in Jordan will immediately start to be prepared.

He said it will help improve the living conditions in some of the refugee camps supervised by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Roth and Spidla also signed a memorandum of Czech-German cooperation in the field of migration and refugee integration. Endit