AMMAN – The Minister of Interior Mazin
Al-Farrayeh, during the opening of the Training Institute for Enhancing
Migration Partnerships in the Mediterranean board meeting on Tuesday, said that
Jordan's geopolitical location imposes significant challenges, especially amid
the political and security disruptions witnessed by some regional countries for
decades.
اضافة اعلان
As reported by Hala News, The Jordanian
Ministry of Interior, won the presidency of the organization for the next two
years, succeeding Malta, after conducting elections today.
The institute's board of directors includes
full members representing the member states: Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Libya,
Malta, Austria, Denmark, the European Union, and international observers.
The institution set out to enhance partnership
relations with the Mediterranean countries to address migration issues, which
have become a major concern for countries worldwide, especially those bordering
the Mediterranean, as migration issues have become crucial elements and
objectives of policies for most countries due to their humanitarian, economic,
social, and demographic impacts on the migrants themselves and the sending and
receiving countries.
Farrayeh added that migration disruptions have
clearly and significantly affected Jordan in various fields, particularly
concerning crossings, borders, and Jordan's reception of large waves of
refugees over those decades.
Currently, Jordan hosts more than 1.3 million
Syrians, in addition to tens of thousands of refugees from Iraq, Yemen, Sudan,
and other nationalities.
Farrayeh mentioned the significant burdens
that Jordan carries across all sectors. Despite Jordan fulfilling its
humanitarian duties on behalf of the international community, it did not
receive the necessary support for the Jordanian response plan to the Syrian
crisis. Until the third quarter of this year, the support did not exceed 20.9
percent of the total cost of the Syrian presence on Jordanian soil. This was
evident in the increase in the unemployment rate among Jordanians.
He noted that Jordan's geopolitical location
and the security and political stability it witnesses are not limited to
receiving refugees but have also made it one of the receiving countries for
large numbers of foreign migrants (workers).
This has reinforced the increase in the
phenomenon of migration to Jordan through the influx of these workers
attempting to settle in Jordan and bring their families. This has created
irregular migration, worsening the situation and putting greater pressure on
the Jordanian economy, which suffers for various reasons, including hosting
large numbers of refugees. Simultaneously, this occurred with the weakness of
voluntary return or resettlement projects for refugees in other countries, in
addition to the lack of funding for the Jordanian response plan to the Syrian
crisis.
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