Former president Carter urges Germany to take lead in migrant crisis

[Yahoo! News]

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday called on Germany to take the lead in solving the European migrant crisis, a situation he compared to the flow of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees to the United States during his presidency. Carter, speaking at his annual "Conversation with the Carters" event at the Carter Center in Atlanta, recalled that the United States accepted some 12,000 Southeast Asian refugees a month in the late 1970s following the Vietnam War, hoping to set an example for other countries. "I'm hoping there will be a similar reaction maybe with Germany leading," Carter, who served as president from 1977 to 1981, said of the response to the thousands of refugees who have fled war-torn Syria and are arriving in Europe.

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