UN chief calls for lifting US travel ban |
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for lifting a US ban on travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries, saying the measures would not prevent terrorists from entering the United States. He wanted these measures to be removed sooner rather than . The measures indeed violate our basic principles and they are not effective if the objective is to, really, avoid terrorists to enter the United States, he said. The appeal to end the travel ban came amid a mounting international outcry over the 90-day entry restrictions on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Addressing the US suspension of refugee resettlement and the ban on Syrians, Guterres again appealed to the US administration to reverse course. Resettlement is must from the point of view of refugee said Guterres, who served as UN refugee chief for 10 years before his election as secretary-general. He hoped the US will be able to re-establish its very solid refugee protection in resettlement and the Syrians will not be excluded in that process.
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