LONDON (Alliance News) - Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday rejected calls for Britain to accept more of the hundreds of thousands of refugees stranded across North Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

"We have taken a number of genuine asylum seekers from Syrian refugee camps," Cameron told ITV and other broadcast media.

"But we think that the most important thing is to try to bring peace and stability to that part of the world," he said.

"I don't think there is an answer that can be achieved simply by taking more and more refugees," Cameron said.

He was speaking after Yvette Cooper, a leadership candidate for the opposition Labour Party, called for Britain to accept at least 10,000 more refugees from Syria and other conflict-hit nations.

"Hundreds of thousands of refugees are fleeing from a new totalitarianism and Europe has to help - just as we did in generations past," Cooper said in a speech on Tuesday at the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think-tank.

"Britain needs to play our part," she said.

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