Dr. Al-Khobaji discusses with IOM Deputy Head of Mission efforts to facilitate voluntary return of Ethiopian migrants
SMA NEWS – Aden the Capital
The Acting President of the Southern Transitional Council, Head of the Negotiations Affairs Unit, Dr. Nasser Al-Khobaji, received on Monday, at the Council’s headquarter in the capital Aden, Mr. John Macau, Deputy Head of the International Organization for Migration Mission in Yemen.
The meeting, which was attended by Eng. Adnan Al-Kaf and Nizar Haitham, members of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, and Eng. Mohammad Al-Abadi, Adviser to the President of the Council for Organizations Affairs, reviewed the situation of illegal immigrants in the capital Aden and other southern governorates, and those coming from Africa, and from Ethiopia in particular.
Dr. Al-Khobaji called on international organizations to play their humanitarian and relief role towards the thousands of displaced people, refugees and illegal immigrants, stressing that the Southern Transitional Council strongly condemns the Holocaust against Ethiopian immigrants in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
The Acting President of the Southern Transitional Council called on the International Organization for Migration to provide suitable shelters for the migrants, and to contribute effectively to alleviate their suffering, meet their most important needs, and provide adequate conditions for them.
Al-Khobaji also called on the International Organization for Migration to expedite the processing of migrants for voluntary return to their countries and to ensure that they are not exploited by terrorist groups.
Al-Khobaji explained that the Southern Transitional Council deals with patience and humanity with immigrants despite the difficult humanitarian conditions that our country is going through, stressing that the leadership of the Transitional Council will do everything in its power to help them return to their country.
For his part, Deputy Head of Mission of the International Organization for Migration, John Macau, stressed the organization’s interest and all humanitarian work partners in Yemen to follow up on the developments of the humanitarian situation and its efforts to communicate with the Ethiopian authorities by sending a committee to register migrants in last year, pointing out that the first flight will depart on Tuesday, from the capital’s airport, Aden, to return 150 immigrants to Ethiopia directly, and the weekly flights will continue until the return of more than a thousand African immigrants as a first stage.
In the meeting, Macau expressed his thanks to the leadership of the Southern Transitional Council for its continuous cooperation with its advanced office and its field team in the capital Aden and for overcoming all difficulties and challenges facing the organization’s work and their continuous cooperation and concern for the safety of migrants and facilitating humanitarian interventions towards them.
