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 Thursday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th February, 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 Thursday.
"Over the past day, in total 1,204 people returned to the Syrian Arab Republic from the territory of foreign states: 304 people (92 women and 155 children) left Lebanon for Syria via the Jaydet-Yabus and Talkalakh CPs [checkpoints], and 900 people (270 women and 459 children) from Jordan via the Nasib CP," the center said in its daily bulletin.
The center added that over 112 internally displaced Syrians had returned to their homes over the given period.
According to the bulletin, the Syrian engineering units also defused 18 explosive devices in 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.
