Some 400,000 Iraqi refugees to return back home
Iraq-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 4/23/2003

The official at the regional headquarters of the UNHCR in Saudi Arabia Ma'moun Mohsin said that the UNHCR intends to implement a program providing for the repatriation of some 400,000 Iraqi refugees from various countries in the world to Iraq.

In a statement issued yesterday by the Saudi daily al-Watan, Mohsin said that the UNHCR has started to draw a plan to repatriate Iraqis voluntarily to their homeland after stability and security is attained in the Iraqi territories. He explained that among those refugees are 200,000 in Iran and 5233 in Saudi Arabia.

During the second Gulf war in 1991 Saudi Arabia had received some 33,000 Iraqi refugees. Their number decreased gradually until it reached 5233 Iraqi refugees, most of them were captured during the war.

For his part, the commander of joint forces of the Saudi armed forces and the director of the Iraqi refugees in Saudi Arabia said that the UNHCR promised to give priority to resettle the Iraqi refugees at Rafhaa camp in Saudi Arabia, stressing they will leave it when security is restored.

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