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World Refugee Day: UNHCR chief appeals to industrialized world as annual ...

24 Jun 2011 09:52

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GENEVA, June 20 (UNHCR) - As UNHCR celebrated World Refugee Day during the agency's 60th anniversary year, High Commissioner Ant�nio Guterres appealed on Monday to industrialized countries to do more to help developing nations in dealing with huge refugee populations.

"We need a new deal in burden and responsibility sharing - much stronger support from countries in the north to countries in the south to help all those who crossed borders . . . The truth is, if there is a burden or responsibility it is essentially assumed by countries in the developing world," he said in the Italian capital, Rome, while presenting UNHCR's 2010 Global Trends report.

The annual report shows that the number of forcibly displaced people in the world is nearly 44 million - a 15-year high. It also reveals a deep imbalance in international support for the forcibly displaced, with 80 per cent of the world's refugees being hosted by developing countries.

In a separate World Refugee Day message, Guterres said it was time for individuals and states to recommit to the humanitarian values enshrined in the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. "We have to do more to keep borders open and guarantee access to fair asylum procedures everywhere," he stressed.

"We need to do more to promote peace in the countries that refugees come from and to support them to return home in safety and dignity," he said, adding: "We also need to increase the number of resettlement places in third countries so refugees everywhere can be restored to hope and the prospect of new lives."

The High Commissioner later presided over a World Refugee Day (WRD) event with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano and six refugees, including a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in World War II.

Meanwhile UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a special World Refugee Day message, called on "people everywhere to spare a thought for the millions of children, women and men who have been forced from their homes, who are at risk of their lives, and who, in most cases, want nothing more than to return home or to start afresh." Ban was later guest of honour at the Nansen Lecture in New York, which addressed forced displacement.

Wizz Air now challenging Tarom as biggest airline in Romania; new ...

Wizz Air’s CCO György Abrán in front of a banner declaring in Romanian: “Wizz Air – the largest airline in Central and Eastern Europe.” At a press conference in mid-April Abrán announced that, as a result of a dispute over charges, Wizz would cut an aircraft at Romania’s Cluj-Napoca Airport and move it to the new Targu Mures base – a capacity shift estimated by Wizz to be worth some 240,000 passengers.

Analysis of OAG schedule data by anna.aero this week reveals that Romania is now Wizz Air’s second biggest country market (after Poland) with over 200 weekly departures from Romanian airports. This means that Romania has overtaken Italy and the UK in the last 12 months, and is the fastest-growing of the airline’s base countries. Wizz Air operates from four airports in Romania; Bucharest Baneasa, Cluj Napoca, Targu Mures and Timisoara. The number of flights from Romanian airports has grown by around 25% in the last year while across the airline’s entire network flights have grown by an estimated 10%.

As a result Wizz Air is now only just behind Tarom in terms of weekly seat capacity at Romanian airports. Assuming its load factor is higher than that of Tarom it may already be the leading carrier in terms of passengers in the country. It already operates more routes than Tarom, with 52 routes split between Bucharest (20), Cluj Napoca (14), Timisoara (10) and Targu Mures (eight). This week saw the launch of new services from Targu Mures to Barcelona, Madrid and Milan Bergamo.

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