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Syria's neighbours risk 'host-country fatigue', conference hears


    BERLIN (Reuters) - Jordan and other countries neighbouring Syria are approaching "host-country fatigue" because of huge demand from refugees for housing, schools, jobs and healthcare and scant resources like water, Jordan's foreign minister told a conference on Tuesday.

    "We are approaching host-country fatigue in which the limit of our ability to address the needs of Syrian refugees is being tested and has already been reached," Jordan's Nasser Judeh told an international conference in Berlin, adding that his country alone hosts 1.5 million Syrian refugees and economic migrants.

    The message was echoed by other countries being overwhelmed by Syrian refugees, such as Lebanon and Turkey, and by the U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres, who called it "the most dramatic humanitarian crisis the world has faced in a very long time".

    (Reporting by Stephen Brown; Editing by Madeline Chambers)