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UN Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Volker Türk talks to displaced Nigerian children in Malkohi host community, Yola, Nigeria.

EU and NATO coordination has started to tackle the refugee crisis and will be further deepened, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told MEPs and national MPs in the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

"European and national parliaments can play a crucial role in these times and should remain connected", said Ms Mogherini, welcoming the participation of members of national parliaments in the debate with MEPs on Tuesday morning.

Displaced Families at the entrance to the Habbaniyah hotel.

Fishing boats head out into the Bay of Bengal. UNHCR fears thousands could be stranded on smugglers’ boats between the Andaman Sea and the Straits of Malacca and in need of rescue.

In the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, people are waiting desperately to be allowed out because of lack of food and skyrocketing food prices.

Internally displaced people from Malakal UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site gather on the outskirts of the UN base with their only belongings after their shelters were burned down in an outburst of violence on Wednesday 17 February.

MEPs will give their views on how best to prevent weapons falling into the hands of terrorists and keep track of cross-border arms transfers in the Internal Market Committee’s kick-off debate on the revision of the EU firearms directive on Tuesday at 9.00. Concerns over the impact that the proposal would have on sport shooters, hunters, collectors, museums and other lawful activities are also among the issues to be discussed by MEPs.

Greek volunteer life-guards help a young child out of a boat that reached the shores of Lesbos, having crossed the Aegean sea from Turkey.