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Paulo Pinheiro, UN Syria Commissioner.

Video. Treat Syrian refugees the same as Ukrainians, says UN commission chair

Updated: 05/07/2022 - 9:16 GMT+2

More than 300,000 Syrian civilians have died in the last ten years of war in the Middle Eastern country.

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