UN bureaucrats claim the migrant crisis was sparked because THEY don't have enough funding

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BRAZEN bureaucrats have claimed the migrant crisis was sparked because the United Nations does not have enough money.

By Tom Parfitt

PUBLISHED: 05:01, Wed, Nov 4, 2015 | UPDATED: 05:17, Wed, Nov 4, 2015

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Syrian woman at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan

The UNHCR – the UN's Refugee Agency – was given a record £2.1 million in donations by governments, charities and ordinary people last year.

But Antonio Guterres, the organisation's refugee chief, complained that humanitarian budgets are not enough "to cover even the bare minimum".

Speaking yesterday, he added: "And we are starting to see what happens as a result of that."

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UN official Antonio Guterres made the comments yesterday

Around 60 million people are now estimated to be displaced by war and persecution around the world.

The "trigger" for this year's funding shortfall is the thousands of desperate Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and Eritreans arriving in Europe, Guterres said.

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He admitted countries have given "additional funds" to refugees in a bid to ease the crisis.
The Government has given around £1 billion in aid to Syrian refugees since 2011 – more than every other nation except the US.

In September David Cameron boasted: 'That is the UK's largest ever response to a humanitarian crisis. No other European country has come close to this level of support."

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Britain has given millions to Syrian refugees under David Cameron

But Guterres claimed the generous donations will "not address the wide problem organisations like UNHCR are facing".

He complained that cuts to the UN's World Food Programme earlier this year made "many refugees feel that the international community was starting to abandon them".

The bureaucrat insisted the European Union can manage the crisis – but said the relocation of 160,000 asylum seekers around the bloc has been "far too slow".

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