AMMAN — International assistance to Jordan
for hosting about 1.4 million
Syrian refugees is a drop in the ocean,
constituting about 10 percent of the actual money the Kingdom spends on hosting
them Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraiah said, according to Al-Rai Daily.
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The size of international assistance to Jordan for
hosting the Syrian refugees “is still below what is needed”, making up roughly
10 percent of the actual money spent on hosting them, Faraiah said.
The burden of hosting the refuges is enshrined in
the fiscal budget, he said. But he reaffirmed Jordan’s moral and humanitarian
principle of hosting displaced people.
Faraiah urged donor countries to support Jordan so
that it can maintain its humanitarian role of hosting the refuges.
He asserted the need to re-forge Jordan’s “refugee
strategy in a way that would serve the interests of the Kingdom”. He explained
that there “security problems involving the Syrians”, including drug smuggling
and trafficking.
He said the number of Syrian refugees who have been
re-settled in a third country, such as Canada or
Germany, stands at 55,090
refugees. He stressed that the re-settlement was carried out “very slowly”.
The number of refugees who voluntarily returned to
Syria are estimated at 94,342 individuals, the minister pointed out.
According to official statistics released earlier in
May, the total number of Syrian refugees in Jordan stood at 1.36 million
refugees, 673,238 of them are registered at the
UNHCR.
Faraiah said Jordan has been giving driving licenses
to Syrians “under certain conditions”. He said 8,839 licenses have been issued
to Syrian motorists, while another 5,032, of different categories, have also
been issued to Syrians.
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