Rudd said the decision follows advice from the UN refugee agency UNHCR that a diversified resettlement quota is needed in order to address the needs of the most vulnerable refugees in the region. Up until March 7,307 Syrian refugees, identified by the UNHCR, had been brought to Britain under the resettlement scheme. Rudd said: “It is vitally important that we focus our support on the most vulnerable refugees in the region who have fled the atrocities in Syria, whatever their nationality. The Syrian vulnerable persons resettlement scheme was expanded by David Cameron in September 2015 to take 20,000 people from the refugee camps bordering Syria in response to the Mediterranean crisis. The refugee resettlement scheme in Britain is open to the most vulnerable refugees who have fled the Syrian conflict and cannot return to their country of origin whatever their nationality.

Source: The Guardian July 03, 2017 17:03 UTC