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Aid organisation calls for 'compassion' as EU sets sights on sharing out migrants

2015-09-23 8 Dailymotion

An aid organisation is calling for “compassion” after EU ministers agreed a controversial deal to redistribute 120,000 migrants among member states. <br /><br /> Euronews correspondent James Franey spoke to Sanj Srikanthan from the International Rescue Committee at the Maximilian refugee camp in Brussels.<br /><br /> It is located just a few kilometres away from where EU leaders were meeting at an emergency migration summit.<br /><br /> James Franey, euronews:<br /><br /> “What is your reaction to the deal struck between EU governments (to relocate 120,000 migrants)?”<br /><br /> Sanj Srikanthan, International Rescue Committee:<br /><br /> “The international rescue committee obviously welcomes what is a significant commitment by the European Union to take those 120,000, but we need to put that in context of four million refugees in the Middle East, half a million in total now in Europe and our concern is for the most vulnerable and whether they are going to be in those quotas.<br /><br /> “But also how the European Union intends to implement a relocation

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