US President Donald Trump’s recent proposal to establish so-called "safe zones" in Syria needs to be studied more comprehensively before making any comments on it, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters on Wednesday, APA reports quoting sputniknews.
The Secretary-General said that history knows several examples of such zones and some of them are tragic, for example, Srebrenica.
"We have nothing against the creation of areas where people can live in safety. That can never undermine the right to seek asylum so when people for instance decide to leave safe zones, to not allow people to leave these zones, this is something that is not acceptable,"Guterres said. "Difficult to comment when we don’t know what it is, let’s see what it is and then we’ll make the adequate comments."
In his interview to ABC News in January, US president Trump emphasized that he "will absolutely do safe zones in Syria" for refugees in order to halt the flow of migrants from Syria to other states.
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