"The German government is determined to reach a deal with Damascus to accelerate the repatriation of Syrian war refugees, despite concerns about the humanitarian situation in a country where violence continues and the economy and infrastructure have been devastated. In late September, Germany Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Rheinische Post newspaper that he intended to "reach an agreement with Syria this year and then initially deport criminals and later people without residence permits.""
""Syria is at its limit; its capacity to take in refugees has already been exhausted," Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, director of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) in Syria, told the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper last week. "We are dealing with one of the biggest refugee crises in the world there." Sending more Syrians back to their home country will only worsen the situation, he warned."
Germany aims to reach an agreement with Syria to accelerate repatriation of Syrian war refugees, planning first to deport criminals and later people without residence permits. The UNHCR in Syria warns that Syria's capacity to receive refugees is exhausted and that further returns will exacerbate one of the world's largest refugee crises. The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development reports about 7 million internally displaced people within Syria and roughly 1 million war refugees returned from neighboring countries after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government. Reports indicate at least 1,300 Syrians have returned from Germany and returnees describe severe shortages of housing and infrastructure.
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