More than 1,200 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for the Reception, Allocation and Accommodation of Refugees said on Wednesday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 16th January, 2019) More than 1,200 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for the Reception, Allocation and Accommodation of Refugees said on Wednesday.
"Over the past day, in total 1,248 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 428 people (128 women and 218 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh checkpoints, and 820 people (246 women and 418 children) from Jordan via the Nasib checkpoint," the center said in its daily bulletin.
The center added that 269 internally displaced Syrians had returned to their homes over the given period.
According to the bulletin, the Syrian engineering units also defused 29 explosive devices in the territory of the country.
As the Syrian government has regained control over most of the country's territories that were seized by terrorists, it is now focused on creating favorable conditions for repatriating refugees. Moscow is assisting Damascus in this process, along with providing humanitarian aid to civilians and being a guarantor of the ceasefire.
