Damascus-SANA
The Minister of Local Administration and the Environment and Chairman of the Higher Relief Committee, Engineer Hussein Makhlouf, discussed today with the head of the UNHCR mission in Syria (Sifanka Dana Bala) areas of bilateral cooperation and ways to develop them and the possibility of participating in supporting the process of safe return of displaced Syrians and refugees to their country.
Minister Makhlouf stated during the meeting that one of the priorities of the Syrian state is to create conditions for the voluntary and safe return of all Syrians to their homeland, while at the same time working to complete the rehabilitation of infrastructure in the liberated areas, providing full services and providing facilities for their return, noting that the amnesty decrees issued included all Syrians, as well as related decisions. obligatory service, in addition to facilitating and simplifying procedures in the border areas, and providing services for returnees, including transportation, relief, humanitarian aid, medicine, education, livelihood projects, and others, to provide them with a comfortable stay.
Makhlouf stressed that the doors are open for all Syrians abroad to return and contribute to building their homeland and reconstruction, pointing to the importance of projects implemented in cooperation with the Ministry and UNHCR, especially lighting projects with renewable energies, repairing damaged homes, preparing temporary residence centers and rehabilitating infrastructure in various regions, hoping to implement more. One of the projects that help create conditions for the return of the displaced.
For his part, (Dana Bala) indicated that the facilities provided by the Syrian government contributed to accelerating the work of the Commission in Syria, expressing his hope to continue cooperation and coordination to ensure the achievement of the desired results of the Commission's work in providing the necessary support to the displaced and creating the appropriate conditions for their return to their homeland.
And (Dana Balla) indicated that today's meeting comes in the context of preparing for the visit of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to the region with the aim of discussing the situation of the displaced in Syria and neighboring countries and the existing and future cooperation projects between the two sides.
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