The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: the United Nations has highly evaluated the efforts of Russia to receive immigrants from Uk

The high Commissioner of the United Nations on matters of immigrants Antonio Guterres highly evaluated the efforts of the Russian authorities for acceptance and settlement of immigrants from Ukraine, according to the report of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The theme of immigrants from Ukraine, Guterres raised during the General discussion within the framework of the 65th session of the Executive Department of the high Commissioner's Programme United Nations of immigrant Affairs, which ended on 3 October in Geneva. As emphasized in the report of the foreign Ministry, Guterres expressed concern about the appearance in this country of a large number of internally displaced persons.

" The high Commissioner has highly evaluated the efforts of Russia in the reception and resettlement of Ukrainian immigrants, " hundreds of thousands of whom crossed the border of the Russian Federation ", - said in a report posted on the Internet office of the foreign Ministry.

for its part, the Russian delegation urged the leadership of UNHCR to continue balanced coverage of the humanitarian consequences of the Ukrainian fall. As emphasized in the message, the session were confirmed, " that the only effective solution to the problem of Ukrainian immigrants and internally displaced persons has the ability to be a cessation of hostilities and a political settlement domestic downs.

The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine has greatly increased since June amid ongoing fighting between supporters of independence Donetsk and Kyiv national security. On 24 September, about 390 thousand Ukrainian immigrants registered on the territory of the Russian Federation.

first head of the Federal migration service of Russia Konstantin Romodanovsky said that more than 180 thousand Ukrainians have applied for refugee status and temporary asylum in the Russian Federation. According to him, refugee status has already received more than 110 thousand Citizens of Ukraine, and the number of people wishing to obtain a temporary residence permit has grown to more than 90 thousand people.


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