Al-Miqdad: Western countries continue politicizing the Syrian refugees’ file

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and expatriates in the caretaker Minister Faisal Al-Miqdad said that the Syrian refugees’ return issue is still subjected to politicization and pressure which is being practiced on states to hinder the return of refugees, who have the will to return home and they are the majority.

 

Al-Miqdad’s remarks came during a speech he made on Monday during the opening ceremony of the meeting of the Syrian-Russian Coordination Committees being held at the Palace of Conferences in Damascus. 

 

“The recent evidence of the politicization of the Syrian refugees’ file is the convening of the so-called /Brussels 5th conference to support future of Syria and the region/  last March without the participation of Syria with the aim of putting pressure on Syria through using the issue of refugees as a political card,” Al-Miqdad clarified.

 

He added that the government continues its task, within the available potentials to facilitate and support the return of its citizens to their homeland and prepare suitable livelihood conditions in cooperation with friendly countries of Russia, Iran and China in addition to the UN and other international originations, referring to the catastrophic impacts of the unilateral coercive measures being imposed on Syria besides the US, Turkish and Israeli occupation of Syrian territories. .ُ

 

The Syrian-Russian joint meeting to follow up the work of the International Conference on the Return of Syrian Refugees and Displaced people, who were forced to leave their homeland because of terrorist groups’ crimes, started on Monday at the Conferences Palace in Damascus.

 

The three-day event will discuss the measures adopted by the Syrian state to create suitable conditions for the return of Syrian refugees and provide decent living conditions and a comfortable environment in coordination and cooperation with Russia.

 

The International Conference on Return of Syrian Refugees was held in November 2020, and it called on the international community to provide appropriate support in order to provide housing for the displaced people and their return to normal life and increase its contribution and support to Syria through carrying out projects related to reconstruction, including basic infrastructure facilities such as water and electricity plants, schools, hospitals, health and medical care, social services, and demining.

 

Basma Qaddour