12.2007 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Tripartite Agreements with France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden ("UNHCR's Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Afghan Asylum-Seekers") [ID 22927]

"In addition, and unique to the operation in Afghanistan, tripartite frameworks for the return of Afghans, including parameters for the phased and coordinated return of persons determined not to be in need of international protection and without compelling humanitarian needs, have been concluded with France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden. Discussions are underway to have a similar tripartite agreement with the Government of Belgium."

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12.07.2004 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

A steady flow of Afghan refugees has started leaving Kyrgyzstan for Canada under a landmark group resettlement plan ("Afghan refugees leave Kyrgyzstan for new life in Canada") [#23940],  [ID 2506]

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17.02.2004 - Source: ReliefWeb

More than 100 Afghans who spent 13 years in the Rafha refugee camp in Saudi Arabia have left for the southern Iraqi city of Basra ("Afghans leave Saudi camp for Iraq (DPA)") [#19369],  [ID 2507]

"More than 100 Afghans who spent 13 years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia have left for the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a Saudi official said Tuesday.
General Khaled al-Woseifer said the 110 Afghans had asked to return to Iraq where they had lived before being forced to flee, following the 1991 Gulf war when the former regime of Saddam Hussein cracked down on defiant Shiites in the south.
The Rafha camp in northern Saudi Arabia was set up to host some 33,000 Iraqi refugees who fled their county. More than 25,000 refugees were resettled by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Europe, North America and Australia, leaving close to 5,000 in the camp.
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