UN Ambassador Samantha Power: 'US will resettle more refugees'
- 9 years ago
Last week, President Obama requested that the US take in 10,000 Syrian refugees in 2016.
That's up from the just over 1,500 the US has accepted since the start of the Syrian civil war, now in its fifth year.
Speaking to a group of reporters at a Monitor-hosted lunch on Wednesday, Samantha Power, the US permanent representative to the United Nations, suggested that the number could go higher.
"President Obama has made very clear that the number we have been able to resettle up to this point is insufficient and that we are going to need to expand that significantly in the next fiscal year," Ambassador Power said.
"In terms of what the right overall number will be next year, we are continuing to reassess that.
It is, of course, an issue of acute urgency."
That's up from the just over 1,500 the US has accepted since the start of the Syrian civil war, now in its fifth year.
Speaking to a group of reporters at a Monitor-hosted lunch on Wednesday, Samantha Power, the US permanent representative to the United Nations, suggested that the number could go higher.
"President Obama has made very clear that the number we have been able to resettle up to this point is insufficient and that we are going to need to expand that significantly in the next fiscal year," Ambassador Power said.
"In terms of what the right overall number will be next year, we are continuing to reassess that.
It is, of course, an issue of acute urgency."