IRAN - Apr. 30 - Tehran Ready To Deport Afghans.The senior official in charge of refugees Hassanali Ebrahimi tells the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers Rudolphus Franciscus Marie Lubbers or Ruud Lubbers (born May 7, 1939) was prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982 – 1994. A political conservative, Lubbers was regarded by many during his time in office as an ideological heir to Margaret Thatcher; one of his during his visit to the border province of Khorasan: "Iran has no further capability to accept these new arrivals (referring to 200,000 of Afghan refugees Afghan refugees (known as Muhajir Afghans in South Asia) are people who fled Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and during the civil war that followed. Since the early 1980s to the late 1990s, there were approximately 3 million Afghan refugees staying in which have crossed the 1,000 km Afghan-Iranian border in recent months). If the international community is sincere about wanting to protect and support these people, it should come forward. If not, they should not put the burden on our shoulders". He says only those with criminal records have been forcibly forc·i·ble adj. 1. Effected against resistance through the use of force: The police used forcible restraint in order to subdue the assailant. 2. Characterized by force; powerful. deported but Tehran can send back refugees deemed to be economic migrants if help is not given. Lubbers praises the "great job" being done by Tehran and says Afghanistan's warring factions should, with international help, create the conditions to allow refugees to return. (The tougher policy follows years of allowing most Afghans to settle in Iran, a process that has led to accusations they are spreading crime and immorality IMMORALITY. that which is contra bonos mores. In England, it is not punishable in some cases, at the common law, on, account of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions: e. g. adultery. But except in cases belonging to the ecclesiastical courts, the court of king's bench is the custom morum, and and stealing jobs from Iranians. Many leaving Afghanistan are escaping a third year of devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. drought, but some also belong to the Shiite Hezara minority fleeing persecution by the Sunni forces of the Taliban. Tehran has previously kept quiet about the numbers of new arrivals in order not to reflect badly on government policy just weeks before the June 8 presidential elections and further antagonise public opinion towards some 1.5m Afghans already in Iran). Western aid workers said Tehran was already deporting several hundred refugees a day through its Dogharoun border crossing while others were being detained and placed in camps. Tehran officials say 7,000 Afghans are placed in the Torbet-e-Jam refugee camp, many of them having been there for years. In 2000, about 133,000 refugees returned to Afghanistan under a joint programme of voluntary repatriation Repatriation The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country. Notes: If you are American, converting British Pounds back to U.S. dollars is an example of repatriation. conducted with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR UNHCR n abbr (= United Nations High Commission for Refugees) → ACNUR m UNHCR n abbr (= United Nations High Commission for Refugees) → HCR m . That programme ended in Dec. 2000, partly because of deteriorating weather in Afghanistan but also because the UNHCR ran out of funds. The agency hopes to start a joint screening programme within a month to decide who are genuine refugees and should be protected and those who are economic migrants. |
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