BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Minister of Displacement & Migration Abdulsamad Sultan said on Saturday that 78,000 families returned to their original homes during the past couple of years.
“The figure includes both internally-displaced Iraqis and refugees outside the country in accordance to the ministry statistics. There are other families that returned to their homes but have not been registered yet,” Sultan told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“In Syria thee was 215,000 Iraqis registered at the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), but now this number decreased to reach 158,000,” he said.
Sultan noted that the government would continue to give Iraqi returnees a sum of 1 million Iraqi dinars and even allocated 76,000 plots of residential lands.
“More than 3,000 efficient professionals returned, including 2500 in the health ministry and 500 in the higher education ministry,” the minister added.
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