That the Parliament stands in solidarity and common humanity with the women, men and children displaced from their home countries in the current forced displacement and refugee crisis, the biggest in living memory, affecting over 50 million; is proud of Scotland's annual Refugee Festival, which celebrates the contribution of refugees to life in Scotland, and includes the parliamentary reception on 16 June 2015 and culminates on World Refugee Day on 20 June; warmly recognises the support of the people and charitable organisations in Lanarkshire, Scotland and the rest of the UK for refugees over the years, such as Belgian refugees in the First World War, the Jewish children of the Kindertransport before the Second World War, Chilean refugees fleeing Pinochet's regime in the 1970s, Kosovans and Bosnians in the 1990s, to those forcefully displaced from their homes around the world today; appreciates that many have no choice other than a decision between certain death at home or a probable death in the Mediterranean at the hands of unscrupulous smugglers; notes the view that the refugee displacement crisis today, as seen in Syria, Eritrea, Libya and in many other countries demands unprecedented protection to be offered by Scotland, the UK and the rest of the EU, and notes calls for the Prime Minister, at the meeting of the European Council to go beyond support for important search and rescue operations to participate fully in coordinated EU solutions to the crisis including safe and legal routes to protection, relocation in Europe, resettlement and family reunion, and the view that the people of the UK could be proud of their governments for protecting refugees in a way that recognises the tragic scale of the displacement of which the Mediterranean deaths are but a chilling symptom.