Some 80% Of Syrian Refugees Ready To Return Home From Jordan - Russian Diplomat
Fakhir Rizvi Published August 15, 2018 | 08:06 PM
Around 80 percent of Syrian refugees residing in Jordan are ready to return to their home country, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th August, 2018) Around 80 percent of Syrian refugees residing in Jordan are ready to return to their home country, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday.
"According to telephone interviews with refugees, around 80 percent of Syrians are ready to return to their homeland as and when the living conditions are restored there. The Syrian side is actively working on the creation of these conditions," Nikolai Burtsev, the representative of the Foreign Ministry at the Russian interdepartmental coordination headquarters on the return of refugees to Syria, said during a session of the center.
The Syrian authorities were demolishing barriers at the Nasib border crossing on the Syrian-Jordanian border to allow for the free entry of refugees, the official pointed out.
Millions of Syrians have been internally displaced by the war, raging in the country since 2011, while millions of others fled hostilities and the humanitarian crisis abroad. According to the UN Refugee Agency, there are over 655,000 registered Syrian refugees living in Jordan.
The forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad have recently regained control over Syrian territories once controlled by terrorists and militants on the Jordanian border. The authorities are now engaged in dealing with the humanitarian disaster and rebuilding the country with the help of the Russian side.
The Russian Defense Ministry said earlier in August that over 235,000 Syrians had returned to their crisis-torn home country from abroad since September 2015.
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