GERMANY-SYRIA-REFUGEES

German Development Minister Gerd Mueller (L) speaks to refugees Aamad Zaidan (R) and his wife Rabea Talab (C) who fled from the Damascus area in Syria, as he visited the Marienfelde Refugee Transit Center in South Berlin, on January 29, 2015. The couple pleaded for their daughter Salwa, still in a refugee camp in Lebanon, to be reunited with them. The centre, originally built in the early fifties for people fleeing Communist east Germany, now houses some 700 asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, along with other countries. It also houses a museum to commemorate those early refugees, the "Erinnerungsstaette Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde". AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)