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The issue of what to do about the world’s 65,3 million displaced people took center stage at the U.N. General Assembly with leaders from the 193 member states taking part in the first-ever summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants.

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Advocacy groups fear the New York Declaration on Migrants and Refugees — an outcome document which contains no concrete commitments and is not legally binding — falls short of what is needed.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, himself a refugee during the Korean War, hails it as historic.

He says the summit represents a breakthrough in collective efforts to address the challenges of human mobility.

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