TEHRAN - The Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, has actually advised the United Nations to assist Iran supply much better assistance for Afghan refugees.He called for the UN to gain from all of Irans capabilities to help the people of Afghanistan and increase regional cooperation in solving the financial, social, and academic issues of Afghan people and refugees.He made the remarks in a meeting on January 23 at the place of the embassy in Kabul with Ms.
Roza Otunbayeva, the special representative for Afghanistan and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.During the conference, the Iranian official highlighted the requirement for improving cooperation in between the United Nations and Iran, which hosts more than 5 million Afghan refugees.For over four decades, Iran has been hosting one of the biggest and most protracted refugee scenarios worldwide and has provided asylum to refugees, mostly from Afghanistan.The recent busy turn of events in Afghanistan has the prospective to produce extra population movements; internally displacing households and potentially driving them to surrounding countries to look for refuge.However, with the continued allowance of inadequate worldwide aid, it is really tough and almost difficult for the Islamic Republic to continue providing services to refugees and unauthorized foreign nationals, the Iranian delegation at the 73rd conference of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner for Refugees, said in October.Filippo Grandi, the High Commissioner for Refugees, while thanking Iran for its long-term measures in supporting Afghan refugees, stressed the requirement to increase worldwide support for Iran and carry out sustainable services, including the voluntary return of refugees and displaced persons.Services to refugees appreciableDespite the sanctions and economic pressures, Iran continues its detailed policy of supplying services to refugees, and this is considerable, UNHCRs Officer in Charge, Inna Gladkova, stated in November 2022.
The best solution and the most steady support group for refugees is that have access to schools and education much like Iranian nationals, she specified, IRNA reported.Iran has actually taken effective and constant procedures to include all refugees, and the UNHCR likewise states its preparedness to meet its commitments, she noted.In the provision of instructional services, there are different elements, she stated, adding, school construction, equipping schools, providing instructors and personnels, and supplying quality instructional services are the primary and essential work done by the Ministry of Education.There are lots of requirements in the field of education, but in the last 10 years, the High Commissioner for Refugees has developed only 95 schools in Iran, but the need is absolutely more than this, she likewise said.In June 2022, Maha Kashour, head of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Mashhad, said Irans efforts and activities in the last 40 years have actually been good to refugees, and in the past year, after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, has actually reached its peak.Iran has actually so far had the ability to supply decent services to refugees in the fields of health, income, and occupation training in cooperation with UNHCR, she noted.The Ministry of Interior has announced to the Ministry of Education a list of 200,000 Afghan children who have the conditions to study in Iranian schools.In the current school year which began on September 23, about 300,000 brand-new foreign students registered in Iranian schools.For the time being, 560,000 foreign students are studying in schools across the country, Education Minister Yousef Nouri has said.MG