(b) Situation of returnees

Provisional Agreement on Children Returnees

The number of returns of displaced persons is still disappointingly low.

This solidified a cooperative relationship with the returning Ottoman authority.

Reception and settlement of returnees are still not easy.

Reception of returnees is supported by the UNHCR.

There have been increased efforts on returns on the part of the Kosovo Government.

Shelter continued to be one of the priority requests of returnees.

The violence of March 2004 resulted in a 40 per cent decrease in returns in 2004 as compared to 2003.

There has been some qualitative progress in returns.

Mine education and clearance in the Nuba region facilitated the resettlement of returnees there.

UNHCR, in collaboration with other agencies, contributes to these efforts in returnee areas.

The United Nations has established an inter agency framework on the protection of returnees to set clear protection standards and provide training and guidance to field staff that will support returnees on their way home.

No municipality in Kosovo and Metohija has worked out a plan or a strategy for returns.

A massive influx of Burundian returnees from Tanzania seems imminent.

The Military Observer Group, composed of representatives of 16 Member States, completed its work in May 1997.3 The Mission also verified commitments to assist returned refugees and internally displaced persons.

That includes personal appeals by the Prime Minister to potential returnees and visits to Podgorica and to Skopje by the Minister of Returns himself a Serb and the Minister of Local Government Administration.

Already, 52,000 returning veterans have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

One project is ecological garbage disposal, and the other is security project electrification of returnee settlement.

The return flow has been continuous since early 2004, especially in the southern provinces.

In addition, the Government of Somaliland was increasingly concerned about the number of returnees and their capacity to absorb the returnees.

E. Clear public commitments from the Government of Uganda on security guarantees and incentives for returning rebels

More than 19,300 Burundians have repatriated so far in 2005.

The pace and magnitude of assistance that is currently being provided must be stepped up to keep pace with an increasing number of returnees.

As I write, the southern port city of Kochi is overflowing with expatriate Indians celebrating their connection to their motherland.

These centres provide returning refugees with cash assistance and are managed by the Government with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Neither UNHCR nor the Government has the capacity for such large numbers of returnees.

Afghanistan has been challenged by the influx of returnees, a trend that is likely to persist following the successful holding of elections.

For example, the Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded 16,000 so far, including roughly 20 with serious brain and head injuries.

A security guard at Erbil international Airport says every flight from Germany is carrying some returnees.

We are especially distressed by the extremely low number of refugee returns, which are the most useful indicator for assessing the situation in the province.

A lot more needs to be done to enable further returns and the sustainability of these returns.

Yet, the key challenge is implementation of the law, in particular the need to treat returnees humanely.

My visits to returnees in several areas, including Bablyak and Brestovik, have convinced me that conditions exist to allow tomorrow's returns to take place and that positive encouragement by responsible politicians, in both Pristina and Belgrade, can convince more displaced persons to return to Kosovo.

The largest number of returns last year occurred in Afghanistan with more than 940,000 refugees alone returning home.

Many recovery projects to support the returnees have had to be suspended for now, including hospitals and water points.

The fragile security situation, combined with high unemployment, has kept the rate of returns of internally displaced persons low.

A total of 734 women and children returnees have been recorded, 154 of them without reunification.

The operations of repatriation convoys have been hampered by bad road conditions, which have been further exacerbated by heavy rains.

A Ministry of Returns and Communities has been established (a priority) to assume responsibility for returns within all communities (a priority).

As most of the returnees settle in urban areas, there has been an estimated 6 per cent annual growth rate in the urban population.

Recalls that the Abkhaz side bears a particular responsibility to protect the returnees and to facilitate the return of the remaining displaced population

Saudi Arabia, unlike Yemen, has supposedly created a model system for reintegrating and re educating Guantánamo returnees.

Also in June 1972, ABC TV aired a dramatized version of it in which James Earl Jones played the role of the returning ex con.

The following issues do, however, appear to affect returnees more than others in the given context.