24.11.2012. The number of Syrian refugees registered
in neighbouring countries has nearly doubled since the beginning of September
to more than 440,000, according to the the UN refugee agency on Friday.
"Across the region... the number of
Syrian refugees in surrounding countries now stands at 442,256, an increase of
more than 213,000 since the beginning of September," UNHCR spokesman
Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva
"And this figure does not include the
hundreds of thousands more Syrians who did not come forward for
registration," he said.
The
agency said it currently counted 127,420 Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon,
125,670 in Jordan, 123,747 in Turkey, 55,685 in Iraq and 9,734 in the North African
countries.
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