Asylum seekers in the West highest since Bosnia war: UNHCR
 

https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/L...MMIGRATION.JPGBy Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Wars in Syria and Iraq drove the number of people requesting asylum in industrialized countries to a 22-year high last year, the United Nations said on Thursday, appealing for Western nations to open their doors to more refugees. Our response has to be just as generous **w as it was then," said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres. Syrians accounted for nearly 150,00 applications for asylum in 44 industrialized countries last year, one in every five claims, it said. Iraqis placed second with 68,700 requests, almost doubling the 2013 figure, "a reflection of the calamity and the violence that is taking place in Iraq right **w and over the past half year," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a news briefing.




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