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		</div><p>Amsterdam has approved a plan to temporarily accommodate at least 1,000 migrants on a cruise ship moored in the Dutch capital’s port.</p>
<p>The move comes as the Netherlands seeks to end an accommodation crisis that last week saw hundreds of asylum seekers sleeping outside a reception centre.</p>
<p>The ship will remain moored in Amsterdam for at least six months under an agreement between the city and the central government.</p>
<p>It is the second Dutch city to approve plans for putting up migrants on a cruise liner.</p>
<p>In both cases, the ships will be moored so residents can exit and enter at all times.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday said he was ashamed of the situation at the asylum reception centre in the remote north-eastern village of Ter Apel, where 700 migrants had to sleep outdoors in unsanitary conditions because there was no space for them inside.</p>
<p>The Dutch arm of Doctors Without Borders sent a team to the camp to provide medical assistance to the migrants, the first time the agency has ever deployed in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>“The situation in Ter Apel is heartbreaking. Together we must solve the shortage of accommodation so that refugees can find a place,” said Amsterdam alderman Rutger Groot Wassink.</p>
<p>Mr Groot Wassink called the cruise ship, which is not yet in Amsterdam but should be in use starting on October 1, a temporary, short-term solution and said the Dutch government needs to work with municipalities to reform the country’s asylum system.</p>
<p>One of the reasons for the crisis is a nationwide housing shortage.</p>
<p>Once asylum seekers are granted refugee status, many are unable to find a place to live and have to stay in the refugee centres, which were intended only as temporary accommodation for people awaiting decisions on their asylum application.</p>
<p>The minister in charge of migration, Eric van der Burg, thanked Amsterdam.</p>
<p>“Temporary large-scale accommodation is very important to restore calm to asylum accommodation,” he said.</p>
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