The foreign ministry of Saudi Arabia spoke about the accusation of its government not stepping it up and helping the refugees pouring in from their neghboring country.

Al Jazeera sourced the Saudi Press Agency's citing of the official. The government personell said that it was "important to clarify these efforts with facts and numbers in response to media reports, which included false and misleading accusations about the kingdom."

He added that Saudi Arabia had offered shelter to 2.5 million Syrians since 2011, when the conflict intensified.

"[Saudi Arabia] was keen to not deal with them as refugees, or to put them in refugee camps, to preserve their dignity and safety, and gave them complete freedom of movement," he said. "[Saudi Arabia] gave whoever chose to stay in the kingdom, which are in the hundreds of thousands, proper residency ... with all the rights that are included like free health care and engaging in the workforce and education."

Recently Arab News reported that the Saudi government has banned its citizens from adopting Syrian orphans. and got quotes from some crucial government officials on the matter.

Latifah Al-Tamimi, director of social supervision at the ministry in the Eastern Province, strongly disapproved of such effort for the children who lost their parents to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

"The ministry does not sponsor Arab children who lost their parents in conflicts, such as in Syria and Iraq. There are global humanitarian organizations that deal with these cases," she said.

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Syrian Refugee Crisis