1,941 Syrian refugees left Jordan during the first six months of this year to return to their country, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

According to UNHCR data, 16,529 Syrian refugees from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will return to Syria in 2023.

In 2022, the number of Syrian refugees returning to Syria from various refugee-hosting countries reached 50,966, compared to 35,624 in 2021, 38,235 in 2020, and 94,971 in 2019.

The daily rate of return to Syria in the current year is 91, while the monthly rate is 2755UNHCR

Jordan hosts more than 1.3 million Syrians since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, including nearly 660,000 Syrian refugees registered with the UNHCR, as of July 5, 2023.

According to a survey carried out by the United Nations and published in June, 1.1% of Syrian refugees in four Arab countries want to return to their country within a year.

The study showed that 97% of the Syrian refugees in Jordan participating in the study do not intend to return to their country within the next 12 months, compared to 2.4% who have not decided yet.

This month, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs Ayman Safadi announced that the basis for the voluntary return of 1,000 Syrian refugees to their country would soon be reached, during a visit to the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Al-Safadi said in a press conference with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Al-Miqdad: “At the Amman meeting, we talked about the voluntary return of about a thousand refugees, so that they can return. What is required of the Syrian government? What is required of the international community? And I think we are very close to crystallizing the foundations on which this process will take place.”

The Amman statement, which was issued after the meeting of the foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iraq with the Syrian foreign minister in May, stressed the importance of working to launch a pilot process for the voluntary return of nearly a thousand Syrian refugees to their country under the supervision of the United Nations, to build on it in creating the necessary conditions to facilitate the voluntary return of refugees.

As for the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Jordan, Sherry Ritsima-Anderson, she told Al-Mamlaka last week that the situation does not allow for the voluntary return of refugees to Syria at the near level, and the appropriate conditions do not exist.

Ritsema-Anderson explained that the United Nations is working with the concerned parties to promote solutions to the Syrian crisis, in accordance with United Nations resolutions.

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