KABUL (SW): In the wake of global migrant crisis, Afghanistan thanked European countries who expressed their dissatisfaction on negative treatment of some countries to migration phenomenon and asked for extraordinary session of 28 European countries on 14th September 2015 to discuss on migrants issues and search for solutions.
Some 12 Syrians trying to reach Greece drowned off Turkey after the boats they were travelling in sank. An image of one of the victims – a young boy lying face down on the beach – has sparked an international outcry over the human cost of the crisis.
The picture, released by a Turkish news agency, is trending worldwide on Twitter under the #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik ("humanity washed ashore") hash tag. The incident has apparently melted heart in London as well where the conservative Tory party seems inclined in bringing some flexibility in its stance on the migrant’s issue.
Ottawacitizens.com has reported that the Family of drowned Syrian boy had refugee status rejected by Canada. “The two small boys whose bodies washed up on a Turkish beach Wednesday were Kurdish refugees from Kobane, Syria, whose family had been desperately trying to emigrate to Canada”, it stated.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriates (MoRR) said today migration is a phenomenon that affects all aspect of human societies’ lives. In 2015 while we witness a huge number of Afghan refugees returning to Afghanistan, unfortunately, on the other hand, we also witness increasing migration from origin countries in international level in an unprecedented level toward European countries, it added.
Advising citizens against illegal means of migration, the MoRR requested European countries to consider and assess all migrants from all origin countries equally as humanitarian issues and focus once again on their commitments to common human society’s values.
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