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Greece and UNHCR Express Solidarity in Migrant Crisis

Tsipras_Guterres (1)Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesĀ Antonio Guterres expressed the importance of collaboration with each other in dealing with the migrant crisis in a meeting on Monday.
Tsipras received Guterres at the Maximos Mansion. The UNHCR referred to his visit to the island of Lesvos where he had the opportunity to observe the conditions and management of the refugee issue and also commented on the Greek peopleā€™s show of solidarity towards the refugees.
“It is a very difficult condition but we do whatever possible,” Tsipras said.
“I am Portuguese and I understand the condition. My country and here are the same,” said Guterres adding that he was impressed by the compassion. The problems can be solved but if there isn’t humanity, nothing can be done; he reiterated underlining that this is a good example for Europe.
“The difference between a refugee and migrant is clear now,” noted Tsipras adding that the Greeks have the experience because in the past many Greeks came from the Aegean as refugees.
Guterres has already visited the refugees reception center at Eleonas in Athens and the island of Lesvos.

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