Refugees and migrants arrive aboard the passenger ferry Eleftherios Venizelos from the island of Lesbos at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, December 18, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee chief called on Friday for a "massive resettlement" of Syrian and other refugees within Europe, to distribute many hundreds of thousands of people before the continent's asylum system crumbles.Antonio Guterres, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, welcomed an agreement for the European Union's border agency Frontex to boost its presence in Greece to help register, screen and interview asylum seekers, but said it was not enough.
"I mean hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people, not just what has been discussed until now in relation to resettlement," Guterres said, referring to the EU's current plan to resettle 160,000 asylum seekers within the 27-member bloc.
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