Request of European countries to negotiate asylum with Syria

According to Webangah News quoted by Tasnim News agency agency Stuttgarter Nakhreshtan newspaper He wrote in an article that some EU countries want to talk with the Syrian government for the possibility of the return of Syrian refugees. According to this report, several EU countries want to send a delegation. to Syria to explore the creation of “safe zones” for the voluntary return of refugees.

The Czech Republic is planning such a trip, and Cyprus has also announced its support. A few weeks ago, the two countries, along with five other EU members, asked Brussels to reassess the situation in Syria so that refugees could return to their country, an initiative that would strengthen Bashar al-Assad’s government, which is still considered by the European Union One side of the dialogue is not accepted.

In addition to the Czech Republic and Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Austria and Poland said at a meeting in Nicosia in May that the Syrians In the first years after the start of the civil war in 2011, Darshi enjoyed support from abroad. They announced: The situation in Syria has now changed, although it has not been completely stabilized yet. Damascus, the capital of this country, is safe for refugees.

Now the Czech Republic, the only EU country with an open embassy in Damascus, wants to send a fact-finding mission to Syria. In this regard, the Ministry of Interior in Prague told the Abu Dhabi “National” newspaper that this trip is in the “preliminary stage”. He left unanswered on Tuesday. Cyprus has already expressed its support for this mission on several occasions. The time of this trip is not known. Denmark, as a member of the European Union, has already classified some areas of Syria as safe for returnees. The country is driven. Most of them found safety in Türkiye, Jordan and Lebanon. More than one million Syrians live in the European Union, mainly in Germany and Sweden. Many of them fled to Europe between 2011 and the conclusion of the EU-Turkey refugee agreement in 2016.

Since then, Syrian migrants have significantly decreased have arrived, but last year the EU still counted 183,000 asylum applications from Syrians. The success of the right-wing populist parties in the European elections two weeks ago brought the issue of asylum seekers back to the center of political discussions in this union.

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