Baghdad The Minister of Migration and Displacement, Evan Faeq Jabro, discussed in Washington with officials in the US administration the Iraqi national plan for returning the displaced to their areas of origin voluntarily.

A statement by the Ministry of Immigration said today that “the Minister, during her official visit to Washington at the head of a government delegation, met with officials in the US administration, including the Assistant Undersecretary of the US Secretary of State Richard Albert and the official of the Iraq file at the US State Department, Solivia Korn, and during the meeting, they discussed Iraqi-US relations and the subject of support and assistance from international organizations and agencies of the United Nations funded by US grants and aid to Iraq, especially the displaced and returnees from displacement.

The meeting also witnessed, according to the statement, a discussion of the Iraqi national plan to voluntarily return the displaced to their original areas of residence and the possibilities available in this file, in addition to the needs and requirements that must be met by the Iraqi government in facing the challenges that impede the return of the displaced to their homes, especially providing job opportunities for the unemployed through implementation of income-generating small and medium projects, or the reconstruction of destroyed homes and villages for the displaced in preparation for their return to them.”

Source: National Iraqi News Agency