al-Arab al-Youm: Jordan refuses to extend for al-Rweished camp for Iraqi refugees

Once again, the Jordanian government refused the request of the UNHCR to extend the period of stay in al-Rweished camp, which shelters hundreds of refugees from Iraq. This came after news which rumored on the failure of all negotiations to send residents in the camp to a third place, excluding Jordan and Iraq.

A Jordanian governmental source said in a statement in the Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Youm issued yesterday, that the Jordanian minister of the Interior, Samir al-Habashinah, asked supervisors of the camp on the need to close the camp by the end of the current month, as scheduled, in preparation to transport it to the buffer zone between Jordan and Iraq.

The source indicated that the UNHCR had asked the ministry of the interior to extend the agreement of keeping the camp for an additional three months, but the ministry apologized and quickly closed the camp as a final solution to this issue.