The world needs a better strategy to deal with irregular migration, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told a U.N. refugee and migrants summit on Monday, adding that European politicians especially should be more careful than ever about their rhetoric against refugees.Rounding out his pleas was the statement that negative rhetoric, including xenophobia and Islamophobia, must stop. "Politicians, especially in Western Europe, must be more cautious than ever,"Çavuşoğlu added.Describing Turkey as a country "at the crossroads of irregular migration," he said the international community must try harder on three fronts for any real chance of success."First, we need to address the root causes of refugee movements. This is not an option. This is an obligation."We must find a political solution to the Syrian conflict. Otherwise, it will continue to be major source of irregular migration in our part of the world."If we do not overcome structural problems of the least developed countries, people will continue to search for a better future abroad," he said.Çavuşoğlu pointed to supporting transit countries, "especially neighboring countries to the conflict regions are disproportionately affected by the flow of migrants.""Financial assistance and resettlement are key instruments in this regard. Unfortunately, our own experience shows that it is almost impossible to talk about burden sharing," he said.Ankara has spent $12 billion on Syrian refugees, while the world offered only $500 million, he said.Turkey is one of Syria's neighbors facing a severe refugee response crisis, home to nearly 3 million of the 5 million refugees who fled the war-torn country.Addressing the summit, Lebanon presented to the international community what sounded like a desperate plea for help as the Middle Eastern country of 4 million deals with the "existential challenge" of "trying to support the nearly 1.5 million Syrian refugees within its borders.""Since the beginning of the crisis in 2011, over 100,000 Syrian babies were born in Lebanon and over 50 percent of them were born in the last 18 months," Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam told the U.N. refugee summit on the first day of the General Assembly."More Syrians are born in Lebanon today than are being resettled in other countries, feeding a perilously destabilizing trend of internal growth in numbers," he said."It is unthinkable that Lebanon could alone cope with an existential challenge of such proportion. This cannot continue." Salam said."When, I ask [you] Secretary-General [Ban Ki-moon], when is the world going to do something for Lebanon?"Queen Rania of Jordan, which is home to nearly 700,000 registered refugees, said her country is working with the international community to "transition from aid and relief toward development and investment."She said Syrian refugees are allowed to join the workforce in Jordan through private economic zones, helping support their families while contributing to Jordan's economic welfare.She also touched on the suffering endured by refugees experiencing violence around the globe, referencing a video of a father who lost three children."Most of us can only imagine the pain of a father losing our children," she said. "But as a global community, we have lost these children too."Let us remember that when displaced people ask where do we go from here, they are asking on behalf of us all."Also addressing the summit, Rami Hamdallah, prime minister of the state of Palestine, said his people "reaffirm our empathy and solidarity with refugees and migrants around the world."Palestinians constitute nearly a quarter of the world's refugee population due to the ongoing Israeli occupation of their land, which has proved one of the most intractable conflicts in contemporary history.