Published January 23,2025
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The UN’s excessive commissioner for refugees known as throughout a go to to Lebanon on Thursday for the “sustainable” return of Syrian refugees to their residence nation following the ouster of former president Bashar al-Assad.
According to Lebanese authorities, the nation hosts practically two million Syrians — round 800,000 of whom are registered with the UN — making it residence to the very best variety of refugees per capita on the planet.
“My visit to Lebanon is part of a regional visit to explore how best to support returning Syrian refugees,” High Commissioner Filippo Grandi stated in an announcement after a gathering with new Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.
“We want to ensure that these returns are sustainable, and this will require improved security and political stability as well as the respect of the rights of all communities in Syria, and the international community’s support for recovery and reconstruction of a country that has been devastated by years of war.”
Grandi additionally hailed “a hopeful moment” for the area following Assad’s fall, saying it had “created an opening to solving a prolonged humanitarian crisis”.
During their assembly, Aoun known as for the return of Syrian refugees to their nation “as soon as possible”, and requested Grandi’s company, the UNHCR, to start “organising return convoys”, in keeping with an announcement from the Lebanese presidency.
The UNHCR says greater than 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned residence since opposition teams toppled Assad in early December.
Grandi stated that he would additionally go to “Syria to meet the new authorities and discuss the potential for more refugees to return from neighbouring countries”.
Syria’s civil struggle started in 2011 with Assad’s brutal repression of anti-government protests, resulting in the deaths of greater than half 1,000,000 folks and displacement of half the nation’s pre-war inhabitants.
Source: www.anews.com.tr