WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – World leaders at a United Nations summit hosted by the United States vowed to double the number of refugees who are resettled and given a legal path to immigrate into their countries, a joint statement issued by the White House said on Tuesday.
“Governments participating here today [Tuesday] have come together, with different types of commitments, to approximately double the global number of refugees resettled and afforded other legal channels of admissions and to improve asylum systems,” the statement said.
Co-hosts of the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees, which US President Barack Obama presided over, were Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, Jordan, Mexico and Sweden. The summit took place in conjunction with the UN General Assembly gathering in New York.
