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The National Center for Security and Crisis Management, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, called on Jordanian citizens residing in Ukraine to go to the Ukrainian-Polish, Romanian, Hungarian or Slovakian borders, in preparation for initiating the process of evacuating them to Jordan.

The center stressed the need for citizens to remain in a safe place, for those who cannot go to those borders.

It is noteworthy that Imad Abu Al-Rub, a member of the Governmental Council of Nationalities of the Ukrainian Prime Minister – a Jordanian residing in Ukraine – announced yesterday, Thursday, that Jordanians in Ukraine had formed an emergency cell that includes leaders of Jordanian communities in Ukrainian cities to follow up on the developments of the crisis and to stay in touch in light of the war.

Abu Al-Rub added, in a statement to “Khabarni” website, that the Jordanians and Arabs who are currently in Ukraine are doing well, and that they are in constant contact with the Jordanian ambassador and the Jordanian embassy in Turkey.

92 Jordanians returned to Ukraine, including 22 students, from February 12 to last Tuesday, according to the director of the media response unit at the National Center for Security and Crisis Management, Ahmed Al-Nuaimat.

Al-Nuaimat told Al-Mamlaka channel, “The National Center for Security and Crisis Management, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, worked to update the data of Jordanians in Ukraine on a special platform launched by the ministry on February 11.”

He added, “Since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked Jordanians to return and launched a registration platform, Jordan had one flight line and we worked on developing it to 3.”

For his part, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Affairs, Ambassador Haitham Abu Al-Ful, told Al-Mamlaka channel, that “since the beginning of the escalation of tension in Ukraine, the ministry has set up a crisis cell to follow up on the situation of Jordanians in Ukraine, since the end of last January. The Ministry is intensively and closely following developments there.”

Abu Al-Ful added: “On February 11, the ministry announced an electronic link and asked Jordanian citizens in Ukraine to register their data in order to update the data in the ministry.”

“Through the electronic link, it was determined that there are 1,200 Jordanian citizens in Ukraine in 14 Ukrainian cities,” he explained.

And the National Center for Security and Crisis Management had announced that Jordanians wishing to return from Ukraine to Jordan were exempted from all travel restrictions related to the Corona virus pandemic.

There are 2,606 Jordanians in Ukraine, including 727 university students studying at 37 universities scattered across Ukraine.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated that the hot numbers for contacting the embassy/Ankara 00905384419586, the Cultural Office/ Kiev 0038093936181 and the Operations Center 00962795497777.