KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia can no longer expect refugees coming here to be re-settled to third countries like in the past because such places are “shrinking” internationally.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Malaysia representative, Richard Towle, says priorities have shifted to other places like the Middle East, the Sub Sahara area and Africa where there are greater humanitarian crises.
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