Refugees Issue According to Syria a National Issue, in Addition to Being a Humanitarian Issue

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad affirmed that the issue of the refugees according to Syria is a national issue, in addition to being a humanitarian issue, as “over the past few years, we have succeeded in achieving the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees, and today we are working relentlessly for the return of each refugee who is willing to participate in building his homeland.

In a speech delivered via video at the opening of the Int’l Conference on the Return of Refugees which is being held at the Umayyad Palace for Conferences in Damascus on Wednesday, President al-Assad affirmed that the overwhelming majority of Syrians abroad today more than ever want to return to their homeland because they reject to be a number on the political investment lists and a paper in the hand of regimes which support terrorism against their homeland.