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NATO Concedes Lack of Resources to Handle EU Refugee Crisis

© REUTERS / Alkis KonstantinidisRefugees and migrants are silhouetted as they arrive aboard the passenger ferry Ariadne at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, January 4, 2016.
Refugees and migrants are silhouetted as they arrive aboard the passenger ferry Ariadne at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, January 4, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Russian envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said that NATO does not have sufficient resources and tools that would allow it to play any significant independent role in solving the refugee problems.

A Syrian refugee cries while disembarking from a flooded raft at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast on an overcrowded raft, October 20, 2015 - Sputnik International
NATO Conducting Exercises Amid “Russian Threat” Instead of Helping Refugees
MUNICH (Sputnik) – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) recognizes its lack of resources to handle the European refugee crisis, Russian envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said Friday.

"NATO understands that the organization does not have sufficient resources and tools that would allow it to play any significant independent role in solving the refugee problems," Grushko told reporters at the 52nd Munich Security Conference.

That is partly why the military alliance is actively searching partners to collaborate with in resolving Western European migratory issues, the Russian envoy said.

A rusty chain hangs in front of the quay of the small Luxembourg village of Schengen at the banks of the river Moselle January 27, 2016. - Sputnik International
Euro Chiefs Slam Delays and Failed Commitments Over Refugees
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Thursday plans to deploy Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft in the Aegean to combat migrant trafficking into Europe. Its standing maritime group deployed in the region would be tasked with reconnaissance, monitoring and surveillance of illegal crossings from Turkey, Stoltenberg said.

On Friday, he added that the military bloc would step up monitoring and surveillance along the Turkish-Syrian border to assist Ankara in managing the refugee crisis.

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