Kerry seeks 30pc hike in worldwide aid for refugees

“We have to acknowledge in all quarters of leadership that the plagues of violent extremism, greed, lust for power, sectarian exploitation, often find their nourishment where governments are fragile and leaders are incompetent or dishonest”, Kerry said during a keynote address at the World Economic Forum.

The United States wants the United Nations to raise funding for refugees this year by 30 per cent to $13 billion and says it will ask for the extra cash at a summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama in September.

He said three major challenges need to be resolved – the demand for good governance, providing young people with economic and social opportunity, and to win the campaign against violence extremism.

The US’s top diplomat said that the Obama administration will seek to increase United Nations humanitarian funding appeals by 30 percent, while increasing the number of regular humanitarian donor countries by 10.

The US was also seeking to persuade 10 more countries to take in refugees, he said, without saying which countries they were.

“Facilitating Refugee Inclusion and Self-Reliance: In order to enable refugees to meet their own needs and contribute to communities that host them, the United States seeks commitments to increase the number of refugees worldwide in school by one million, and the number of refugees granted the legal right to work by one million”.

Sometime in the near future when an Iranian sponsored terrorist group carries out an attack, there will be a “Made in the USA” label on it. That’s the word from Secretary of State John Kerry who told CNBC that some of the money Iran is getting as a result of sanctions relief in the nuclear deal will be given to terrorists. “I can’t tell you how many leaders, as I traveled through certain areas, told me, ‘You’ve got to bomb it, ‘” Kerry told the audience of politicians and business leaders.

The two groups are leading members of the Popular Mobilization Forces, which was set up previous year to help Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government fight the Sunni jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Kerry confirmed that diplomatic tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia did not hinder peace talks on Syrian crisis, which is scheduled to be held next week.

Kerry’s statement likely also will add new fuel to the fire that the $1.7 billion the USA gave to Iran, amid the prisoner swap that saw the American freed for seven Iranians, was actually a ransom payment and not at all linked a financial dispute dating back to the 1980s.