Strasbourg, 05.04.2013 - “Jordan urgently needs the support of the international community in order to cope with the immense necessities of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees whom it harbours on its territory. Merely fulfilling the basic needs of the 140,000 Syrian refugees placed in the Za’atri camp, which our delegation visited, costs a million dollars a day. And over 2 000 new refugees are arriving at Za’atri every day,” Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), Chair of the Assembly Sub-Committee on the Middle East, declared today after their visit to Jordan on 6 and 7 April.

“In the troubled Middle East, Jordan remains a stable country and, while a good number of reforms have been undertaken by the authorities, many others are still called for,” she added. “In this context, and with the region destabilised by the Israeli-Palestinian problem and the conflict in Syria, the international community needs a stable Jordan,” Ms Durrieu concluded. (more...)