Most of the people flooding into Europe are refugees fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries who have a legal right to seek asylum, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "The secretary-general (Ban Ki-moon) stressed the individual and collective responsibility of European states to respond responsibly and humanely," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said about Ban's calls with the leaders of Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia about the crisis. "He stressed that the large majority of people arriving in Europe are refugees fleeing war and violence, who have a right to seek asylum without any form of discrimination," Dujarric added.