IRAQ: UNHCR SAYS REFUGEE RETURN UNFEASIBLE FOR SOME TIME.(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) special envoy, Dennis McNamara, told journalists on 9 July that a lack of security, essential services, and functioning civil administration in some parts of the country will probably delay large-scale refugee returns to Iraq until next year, UNHCR reported on 9 July (http://www.unhcr.ch/). "Iraq is not ready to receive large numbers of refugees, it is just economically not viable at this time," McNamara said. He returned from his second trip to Iraq in one month on 7 July. "The security situation in Iraq and in Baghdad in particular ...

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