U.N. sees Syria progress timely for migrant crisis

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Progress toward negotiations in Syria offers a glimmer of hope for easing the refugee crisis sweeping into Europe, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday as diplomats prepared for talks later in the week. "It is moving," Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told Reuters. While the Syrian conflict has driven millions from their homes and fueled this year's surge of hundreds of thousands of people arriving in Europe, it was only one facet of a global phenomenon of migration that, Eliasson said, governments should try to embrace as a long-term opportunity for development.




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