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AMMAN — Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey host the vast majority of the nearly 5 million Syrians registered as refugees and, along with Iraq and Egypt, have faced the refugee crisis with limited financial support from other states, an Oxfam statement said Thursday.
Less than 3 per cent of nearly 5 million refugees living in Syria’s neighbouring states have been resettled in rich countries, according to the statement.
Oxfam reviewed the resettlement policies of eight countries — Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, the UK, the US — and concluded that in some countries, a lengthy process, security screening, and “an increasingly hostile political climate” delayed the arrival of Syrian refugees, while in others “increased human and financial resources and political will have improved resettlement”.