NATO takes call on aid for migrant crisis ‘seriously’

NATO will take any request to help with the refugee crisis “very seriously,” chief Jens Stoltenberg said Feb. 9, as thousands continued to flock to the Syria-Turkey border fleeing assaults by Russian-backed Syrian government forces around the city of Aleppo. 

“I think we will take very seriously the request from Turkey and other allies to look into what NATO can do to help them cope and deal with the crisis and all the challenges they face, not least in Turkey,” Stoltenberg was quoted as saying by AFP during a news conference.

Defense ministers from the 28-nation alliance will discuss the issue at a meeting in Brussels on Feb. 10 and 11 on the issue.

Former Norwegian Prime Minister Stoltenberg said he had spoken with the Turkish and German defense ministers on Feb. 9 to discuss the issue, adding that the migration crisis was “of great concern for all of us.”
“I expect the ministers to discuss the request from Turkey and then agree on how we can follow up,” he said, stressing that nothing as yet had been decided...
  [hurriyetdailynews.com]
9/2/16
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