HANGZHOU, China: The Group of 20 agreed at their summit in China that refugees are a global issue and the burden must be shared, the leaders declared in a joint communique on Monday (early Tuesday in Manila).

“Worldwide massive forced displacement of people, unprecedented since the Second World War, especially those generated from violent conflicts, is a global concern,” they said at the end of their two-day gathering in the scenic eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.

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