EU foreign ministers are to hold an emergency meeting next week to discuss worsening Syria conflict - EU foreign policy chief Borrell
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the recent fighting around the Syrian rebel stronghold of Idlib"represents a serious threat to international peace and security."
The fighting around the Syrian rebel stronghold of Idlib "represents a serious threat to international peace and security" with grave humanitarian consequences for the region and beyond, he said in a statement. Borrell said the meeting was being organised particularly at the request of Greece, which is confronting a build-up of thousands of migrants on its border with Turkey.
Since then, fighting has escalated in and above Idlib, worsening what was already the worst humanitarian crisis of Syria's nine-year-old war, with nearly a million civilians fleeing their homes.The flow of migrants across Turkey to Greece's border in particular has revived EU fears of a reprise of the 2015 refugee emergency. That inflow of mostly Syrian asylum-seekers was stemmed in 2016 by a deal with Ankara called the EU-Turkey Statement.
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