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UN talking to Germany about resettling 5,000 Syrian refugees

by Reuters
Tuesday, 11 June 2013 16:38 GMT

Syrian children refugees pull water bottles at the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border June 9, 2013. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib

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(Corrects figure to 5,000 instead of 10,000 after UNHCR official clarification)

GENEVA, June 11 (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency is talking to Germany about temporarily resettling up to 5,000 Syrian refugees, UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said on Tuesday.

Edwards said UNHCR was also working with other European governments to find ways to help the 1.6 million Syrians who have fled the country, a number the United Nations expects to reach 3.45 million by the end of 2013.

(Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Janet Lawrence and Michael Roddy)

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