Iraqui refugees in Jordan await resetlement

The Iraqi embassy in Amman announced that about 200 thousand of Iraqi refugees are now living in Jordan; most of them are suffering difficult living conditions, and waiting to be resettled in other countries. The charge d’affaires of the Iraqi embassy in Amman, Tahsin Alwan said that about 200 thousand of Iraqi refugees are now living in Jordan; most of them are in Amman. Most Iraqis in Jordan do not have residence and their remaining in Jordan depends on a document granted by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to prove they're on the list of refugees to prevent the Jordanian authorities from returning them forcibly to their country." Alwan added. He continued that "most of them can’t work because they have not residence documents, so some of them depend on aid and some other do free hard works.” Alwan also assured that "the Iraqi embassy in Jordan provides services to all Iraqis, and always ready to receive requests and complaints, if there are any." UNHCR has recommended the need to accept the settlement of 48 thousand Iraqi refugees in 2010 in the host countries. Most of the applications of the Iraqi refugees come from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey, where most Iraqi refugees live abroad and their number is about 1.8 million refugees. Washington had been criticized, in 2007, by the International Organizations after accepting only 1200 of Iraqi refugees, while Sweden accepted the biggest number of them among the European countries.