British Prime Minister David Cameron is promising Britain will fulfill its “moral responsibilities” but is resisting growing pressure at home and abroad to accept a bigger share of Syrian refugees.
Cameron says he was “deeply moved” by images of a 3-year-old Syrian toddler found dead on a Turkish beach after a migrant boat sank but he stopped short of making any new commitments.
“We do care,” Cameron tells reporters during a factory visit in northeast England, adding: “I think Britain is a moral nation that always fulfills its moral responsibilities.”
He says Britain would keep the number of refugees it accepts “under review” although he adds: “There isn’t a solution that’s simply about taking people, it’s got to be a comprehensive solution.”
A migrant family is arrested by local police after their local train coming from Budapest and heading to the Austrian border has been stopped in Bicske, west of the Hungarian capital on September 3, 2015. (AFP/ISTVAN BIELIK)
Britain has accepted 216 Syrian refugees under a special government scheme over the past year and around 5,000 Syrians have been granted asylum since the conflict there broke out in 2011 — far fewer than countries like France, Germany and Sweden.
— AFP
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