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UN Photo/Mark GartenA woman and child at Za’atri refugee camp in 2012, host to tens of thousands of Syrians displaced by conflict, near Mafraq, Jordan. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the camp in 2012 as part of a two-leg trip to Jordan and Turkey to assess the Syrian refugee situation in those countries.

MIDDLE EAST

The centre of UN activity in the Middle East is Beirut, Lebanon, home to the Economic and Social Commision for Western Asia.  In addition to ESCWA, there are also UN political offices in the Middle East, and many regional and country offices of UN system entities in the Middle East and North Africa region.