By Xinhua
Damascus : The UN has called for better living conditions and education for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East.
Panos Moumtzis, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Syria, Monday stressed the importance of cooperation and coordination with the General Authority for Palestine Arab Refugees (GAPAR) to implement decisions and proposals taken at previous conferences to improve the conditions of the refugees.
Moumtzis was speaking at an annual four-day conference of the GAPAR at its headquarters here.
Syria has 435,000 Palestinian refugees who have registered with the UN and another 1.4 million Iraqi refugees who fled their homeland after since US invasion of Iraq.
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