U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says he looks forward to boosting global refugee resettlements after sharp declines caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and drastic cuts to resettlements in the United States under the former Trump administration.
"The whole pace will pick up in a few months," Grandi told VOA's Celia Mendoza Sunday in an interview coinciding with World Refugee Day. "In the whole of 2020, we only resettled 34,000 people (globally). The year before was more than 100,000. The drop was enormous."
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