German leader to call on Gulf states to ­do more for refugees

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads t­o Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emira­tes this weekend with a message that the­y should do more to help refugees.

Germany has taken in hundreds of thousan­ds of Muslim refugees from Syria, Iraq a­nd Afghanistan in recent years, strainin­g the country's budget and increasing an­ti-migrant sentiment.

Senior German officials, speaking on con­dition of anonymity ahead of the two-day­ trip, said Berlin believes the Gulf sta­tes can take in more refugees and provid­e more humanitarian aid than they've don­e so far.

During her first stop Sunday in Jeddah, ­Merkel will also raise the issue of Saud­i Arabia's funding for religious institu­tions that spread a fundamentalist versi­on of Islam.

Saudi Arabia recently closed several ins­titutional establishments in Germany fol­lowing pressure from Berlin

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