Hague: UK will act swiftly on Syria refugees

Foreign Secretary William Hague said Thursday that Britain will act "straight away" to provide a refuge for hundreds of vulnerable Syrians brutalized by their country's civil war, The Economic Times reported. Speaking in the Philippine capital during a Southeast Asian tour, Hague said his government would act quickly on the pledge announced Tuesday by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. "We're getting on with it straight away," Hague told a joint news conference after meeting his Philippine counterpart Albert del Rosario. "We will take people into the United Kingdom in order to help them and give them some respite and some care after some of the things that they have been through." Female victims of sexual violence, the disabled, the elderly and torture victims would be the targets of the programme, Clegg said on Tuesday. When asked when or how the scheme would be implemented, Hague did not give specifics but stressed the details would be known soon. Source: MENA