250,000 Syrian refugees could return home next year: UNHCR

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News ID: 32703
Asia » Asia
Publish Date: 16:35 - 11 December 2018
TEHRAN, December 11 - Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.

250,000 Syrian refugees could return home next year: UNHCRTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Some 5.6 million Syrian refugees remain in neighboring countries - Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq - Amin Awad, UNHCR director for the Middle East and North Africa, told a news briefing. Some 37,000 have returned this year, UNHCR figures show.

"We are forecasting in this phase up to 250,000 Syrians go back in 2019. That figure can go up and down according to the pace with which we are working and removing these obstacles to return," Awad said.

Source: Reuters

 

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