PARIS, Sep. 23 (MNA) – The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) spoke out yesterday for a large-scale international action to handle the unprecedented refugee crisis in Europe.


The objective must be to respond to the immediate needs of the asylum demands and facilitate their integration, said the entity in a report published in this capital.

“The human cost of the crisis is terrible and it results essential that the countries find rapidly and in a just manner, the distribution of persons in that predicament,” expressed the Secretary General of OECD, Angel Gurría.

“It is also necessary to guarantee lodging, food and ways to sustain themselves to those human beings and the governments should implement measures necessary in the middle and long term in order to face that situation,” he stressed.

According to the European Agency of Border Control, until the end of August over 500 thousand persons had crossed illegally the borders, representing almost double the amount compared to 280 thousand registered in all 2014.

Amid the worsening of migration crisis and persistent lack of efficient measures to face this phenomenon, the ministers of the Interior of the European Union (EU) are meeting this Tuesday in Brussels to try to find consensus on the distribution of 120 thousand refugees.

Representatives of the 28 nations of the group will analyze the introduction of a temporary mechanism for the redistribution of undocumented persons, due to the rejection of nations like the United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia to establish mandatory quotas, according to the information transmitted.

Last week, the ministers of the Interior of the bloc supported an initial plan for the relocation of 40 thousand immigrants, but without achieving agreement on a higher figure.

By Mehr News Agency