Iran's 840,000 Afghan refugees not forgotten: UNHCR

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Tehran: The Un High Commissioner for Refugees has "not overlooked" the 840,000 Afghan exiles in Iran, an official from the form said on a visit to Tehran on Tuesday. "The entire planet is at the minute truly kept tabs on the Syria emergency, it is additionally critical that Unhcr show we have not overlooked the Afghan
displaced people," Unhcr Assistant High Commissioner for Operations Janet Lim said. Lim was outcome a three-day visit to the Islamic republic, home to the planet's biggest group of Afghan exiles, some of whom initially fled battling in their country in the 1980s. With a plan of $60 million for 2013, Lim said the Unhcr must "maximise the utilization of the base assets" that it has. She said Tehran had "helped a mess in hosting this huge number of exiles for more than 30 years", yet cautioned that Afghans are still profoundly helpless, especially when confronted with immoderate restorative consideration or when looking for work. The Unhcr is attempting to "focus on the most helpless" with its help, Lim said, especially with another arrangement of health protection started in late 2012, which has as of recently furnished forethought to 200,000 genuinely sick displaced people. Since the start of 2013, 6,400 Afghan displaced people living in Iran have picked to return home, as per the Un figure's figures. Lim said each outcast who picks voluntary repatriation can accept $150 from the Un, and will partake in aid programs for health, training and business. The Un org's illustrative in Iran, Bernard Doyle, said such activities were key in helping Afghans return home. "The point when the conditions achieve a certain level whereby individuals can come back with a protection of having training, health, and above all else having a wage, that is the point at which the tide turns," Doyle said. Indeed, 12 years after the succumb to the Taliban, Afghanistan remains the planet's heading nation