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About 1,000 Syrian refugees have arrived in the UK under the government's commitment to resettle vulnerable people from camps, David Cameron has said.
"The UK government has made crystal clear its commitment to resettle vulnerable children under the Immigration Act and ensure those with links to the UK are brought here using the Dublin regulation.
The government is making the pledge as it confirms that the local authority places needed to deliver on its commitment to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 have been found.
Separately, Vincent Cochetel, regional director for Europe at the office of the UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), said an EU commitment to resettle 20,000 refugees over two years, on a voluntary basis, remained "very low".
In exchange for a commitment to resettle Kurdish refugees in the disputed city of Kirkuk and to accept, at least temporarily, a limited role for Islamic sharia in legislation, the Kurds agreed to accept the moderately Islamist Dr Jaafari as prime minister.
Since then however this pledge has been downgraded to a commitment to resettle "several hundred" of the most vulnerable Syrians, and Thursday's quarterly immigration figures are expected to show that only around 100 Syrians have arrived under the Government's Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme.
But so far, the United States has not announced a commitment to resettling a significant number.
Kirby said that in addition to its commitment to resettling refugees, the United States had spent $4bn on security and fresh water and food for Syrian refugees living in camps.
National leaders and delegates will meet at the UN-convened world humanitarian summit in Istanbul next week, where countries are expected to make commitments to resettle more refugees, particularly those displaced by ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Europe's commitments to resettle refugees remained "very low compared to the needs, 20,000 places within two years on a voluntary places," it said.
Germany has committed to resettle 30,000 people.
