” “”The end of violence, appropriate aids to civilians and the opening of global long-term solutions for peace and security in the whole region”: this is the outcome that mgr. Agostino Marchetto, secretary of the Papal Council for Migrants and Wanderers, wishes for the Summit on the Middle East that is in progress in Rome today. The humanitarian agencies "should get access to suffering or fugitive civilians. The hundreds of thousands of evacuees need prompt care. So, humanitarian corridors will have to be opened”, states the bishop with reference to Lebanon, where thousands of migrants, mostly from Asia and Africa, “have got trapped up in the conflict. May the international agencies help them and evacuate them to safer places and/or assist them to bring them safely back home”. According to mgr. Marchetto, about 22 thousand Sudanese and Iraqi people, who found asylum in Lebanon, are particularly distressed by the consequences of the hostilities: “It would be extremely helpful for them if easier procedures for access to Syria could be decided and if the Syrian Government would allow Lebanese, recognised migrants and refugees, to temporarily enter their country and protect them at this time of violence”. ” “
