U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, when he was High Commissioner of Refugees, characterized the war in Syria as 'the great tragedy of this century, a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.'
Merkley cites Guterres' description of the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
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