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US, EU Should Assist Gulf States to House Migrants 'Closer to Home'

© AP Photo / Santi PalaciosMigrants from Syria and Afghanistan arrive on an overcrowded dinghy from the Turkish coasts to the Greek island of Lesbos, Monday, July 27, 2015
Migrants from Syria and Afghanistan arrive on an overcrowded dinghy from the Turkish coasts to the Greek island of Lesbos, Monday, July 27, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Gulf states should use funding from the United States and the European Union to accommodate migrants and address the issue "on the spot," the mayor of a southern Hungarian border town told Sputnik on Thursday.

Men walk amidst the rubble of damaged buildings at a site hit on Tuesday by what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the rebel-controlled area of Deir al-Asafir town, near Damascus March 11, 2015 - Sputnik International
Gulf States 'Responsible for Syrian Crisis', Must Extend Aid to Refugees
BUDAPEST (Sputnik), Mary Lopatto – The UN Refugee Agency calculated the number of asylum seekers and refugees in Bahrain to be 353, in Qatar 221 and in Saudi Arabia 661, as of late 2014.

Toroczkai, whose town lies 15 miles west of the temporary refugee camp in Roszke from where hundreds of migrants broke out earlier this week, suggested that it is necessary to "solve the problem where the refugees are fleeing from."

"You have to wonder why there are no Syrian refugees in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar, for example," Laszlo Toroczkai, mayor of Asotthalom, a town located on a popular route used by thousands of migrants, said.

"With the financial support of the European Union and the United States, good camps for refugees could have been created on their soil," the mayor argued.

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