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Antonio Guterres and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: The wars in Syria and Iraq are pushing asylum claims to their highest global levels in 22 years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Thursday, according to The Chronicle Herald. The situation mirrors that facing the globe after the Balkan wars of the 1990s, when hundreds of thousands of people sought refuge, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and Syrians made 150,000 applications for refugee status to 44 countries in 2014, making them the largest group that year, and Iraqis accounted for 68,700, the said in its global trends report. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.