AMMAN —
On the occasion of
World Refugee Day, observed on June 20, UNHCR’s Jordan
Representative Dominik Bartsch stressed the importance of strengthening support
for the organization more than 10 years into the Syrian refugee crisis
according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
اضافة اعلان
Bartsch revealed that about 5,994 refugees returned to
Syria in 2021, while another batch of 1,449 followed suit in the first five
months of 2022.
Figures by the UN refugee agency showed that 88 percent
of the 761,500 refugees registered with
UNHCR in Jordan are Syrian.
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