MORE than 700,000 Syrian refugees have registered or are awaiting registration in neighbouring countries as the conflict in their war-torn country spirals out of control, the UN's refugee agency says.
"We've had a huge push in the last few weeks. The needs are enormous," UNHCR spokeswoman Sybella Wilkes told AFP on Tuesday.
She said a colleague on the ground had complained that "we cannot get to everyone fast enough".
The number of Syrians registered as refugees or awaiting processing in the surrounding countries had reached 703,314 by late Monday, she said.
Of that number, more than 581,000 were registered and aid workers were doing their best to scale up the registration process "to clear the backlog."
Wilkes said at this time last year the UN agency was registering only a few hundred Syrian refugees each month in Lebanon.
"Now, the aim is to register 45,000 a month," she said, adding that the current average stands at about 32,000.
In Jordan, which has seen a massive influx in recent weeks, "the plan is for the month of February alone to try to register 50,000 people," Wilkes said.
About four million Syrians rely on international assistance to cope with the fallout from the 22-month old conflict in which the UN estimates more than 60,000 people have died.
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