London, Jan 29 (Prensa Latina) The United Kingdom will receive refugee children coming from Europe, without their parents or any kind of companions, from zones of conflict such as Syria and the north of Africa.
British Interior Minister James Brokenshire said this group of children, which exact number he did not inform, is added to the 20,000 Syrian refugees the government of London committed itself to receive, in the next five years.

"We have requested the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to identify the exceptional cases, in which the best choice, is to relocate them in the UK, and to help us bring them down here," said Brokenshire.

After the announcement, several humanitarian agencies celebrated the project and stated that any help to children proceeding from areas in conflict is welcome.

In the last months, the British authorities maintained an opposite position to receiving foreign children or adult people, but in the middle of the migratory crisis in Europe and immediately after the international pressures, the governemnt announced the plan of receiving 20,000 Syrians in the next five years.

The initiative has been questioned in the country by personalities and activists that think that London can and must do much more in favor of those who flee away from the war.

A group of 300 lawyers sent in last October an opened letter for the government to show its dissatisfaction with the plan of reception, which they considered to be slow and limited.

The experts in legal questions qualified of insufficient the number of 5,000 refugees and pleaded for guaranteeing sure routes for the migration with measurements like the authorization of humanitarian visas.

On the other side, many British bishops asked Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the number to 50,000.

"We believe that this is the great tradition of asylum in the country, and its generosity of spirit that we see feasible to relocate at least 10,000 people each year during the next two years, raising it to a minimum of 50,000 in the next five years covering its announcement," they noted in a letter.