Tony Blinken, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, contextualizes the total number of displaced people globally during a discussion on international migration.
“And if you put all of these people together who are now currently displaced into one country, It would be the 25th or 24th largest country on earth, bigger than South Korea, bigger than Spain.”
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