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| Iran Provides Facilities to Afghan Refugees |
| 2014-12-15 |
| [ToloNoews] The Iranian government has decided to extend the visas of Afghan refugees by an additional six months as well as provide other facilities to the illegal Afghans in the country, second Deputy Chief Executive Mohammad Mohaqiq said upon returning from Iran. After his official trip to Iran, Mohaqiq told a presser Sunday in Kabul that the purpose of his trip was to ease the problems of Afghan refugees in the neighboring country. "Iran has promised to extend Afghan refugees visas for an additional six months," Mohaqiq said, adding that more than a million Afghans are living in Iran without legal documents. In addition to the six month visa extension, he emphasized that Iran has also accepted to allow the Afghan youth, who are in Iran illegally, to attend school. "The Iranian officials have also promised to reduce half the university fees for Afghan students." Furthermore, Mohaqiq noted that the Iranian government has also promised to assist in treating drug addicts and the disabled. After touching upon the basis of his trip to Iran, Mohaqiq touched base on the recent spate of bombings and attacks, emphasizing that with the formation of the new cabinet, the security issues will be resolved. He reiterated that the unity government has agreed on the new cabinet, it is just a matter of time for the names of the nominees to be announced. According to statistics, nearly three million Afghan refugees, who fled war and violence, are residing in Iran and only 800,000 have proper legal documents. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... High Council on Refugees has identified civil wars and internal conflicts as one of the leading factors increasing the number of asylum seekers worldwide, leaving Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Sudan with nearly 50 percent of the world's total refugee population. |
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