United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and U.S. Secretary General John Kerry confer in the United Nations General Assembly Hall during the 71st United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, U.S. September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama garnered pledges from dozens of countries to resettle or allow the lawful admission of some 360,000 refugees, doubling the number of slots that were available last year, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said.
But Ambassador Samantha Power said that was "still only a fraction" of what was needed because the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, has assessed that some 1.2 million refugees need to be resettled.
