Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) met his Jordanian counterpart on Monday. The two ministers advised on the voluntary return of Syrian migrants according to the case of the Assad regime.
Since then, more than 100,000 people have returned from Jordan to Syria, Karner said in Vienna. Almost 500 of them come from Austria. During the meeting with his Jordanian counterpart Mazzin Abdellah Hilal al-Farrayeh, he told him about the first deportation of a Syrian perpetrator from Austria last week. “Jordan is fundamentally against random deportation,” said Farrayeh. However, the voluntary return, for example from Iraqi migrants, is supported.
Since the start of the Syrian Civil War, Jordan did a lot 14 years ago, said Karner. He visited a refugee camp in Jordan himself. That is “not comfortable, but it is safe there”. According to Farrayeh, Jordan has taken 1.5 million people from the neighboring country since the civil war. These would have received education, health and social benefits. “We agree that the fight against illegal migration starts where you support your own country,” said Ferrayeh.
Nearly 105,000 Syrians in Austria
Due to the loss of humanitarian funds from the US and other countries, many aid programs for Jordan have already hired. US President Donald Trump recently suggested moving Palestinians from the largely destroyed Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. The government rejects this. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Jordan’s economy is mainly due to Israel’s war against the Palestinian organization Hamas.
The European Union (EU) agreed to the country and investments of three billion euros at the end of January. According to Statistics Austria, 104,699 Syrians live in Austria (key date 1.1,2025). Jordan is one of the countries with the highest number of refugees per inhabitant worldwide.
Source: Krone
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