Filippo Grandi called on governments to intensify diplomacy

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“The world has changed, the refugee phenomenon has changed, UNHCR has changed, but the principle has not changed”

It is in these terms that the new High Commissioner for Refugees UN, Filippo Grandi stressed his priorities as the new head of the UNHCR.

This commitment may be difficult to maintain while UNHCR is a lack of funding. According Filippo Grandi agency would have ended the year with about 50% of its budget, which received only $ 3 billion to 7 billion requested in the budget based on the needs.

The new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, scored his duties beginning in January 2016 in Geneva in the hope that the world community will manage to find solutions to the crisis created by the massive displacement addressing the root causes of displacement.

“Despite all these disasters, despite the fact that we are in emergency mode, we must not forget that the second part of our mandate is to find solutions to refugee problems,” insisted the High Commissioner for the refugees.

Filippo Grandi, arrives at the head of UNHCR, while a record number of people fleeing wars and persecution, including more than one million refugees and migrants who crossed the Mediterranean into Europe in 2015. Noting that there are currently about 60 million displaced people in the world as a result of conflicts in various countries such as South Sudan and Syria, Mr. Grandi has pledged to work closely with United Nations partners. He urged governments to invest more energy and resources to resolve wars and conflicts and finding solutions to the causes of the refugee crisis and to intensify diplomatic efforts to find solutions to conflicts and abuse that generate migrants and refugees.

Italian and 58 years old, Mr. Grandi successor at the head of UNHCR Antonio Guterres, who held that position for 10 years.

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