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The UN Refugee Agency welcomes that Mr. Abdoumalik Abdoulladjanov is in good health upon his release

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UNHCR highly appreciates the commitment of the Ukrainian government to its legal obligations regarding refugee protection in accordance with the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol as well as Ukrainian domestic law. UNHCR hopes that Ukraine will maintain high standards in protecting rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the future.

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For further information please contact Nina Sorokopud, Associate Regional PI Officer at UNHCR Regional Representation for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, Public Information Unit. Tel.: +380 44 288-97-10, +380 67 505 00 56 E-mail: sorokopu@unhcr.org. Web-site: http://www.unhcr.org.ua.

 

Background information:

  • The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950. It became operational on January 1, 1951. UNHCR’s contributions to the world peace have been recognized with Nobel Peace prizes in 1954 and 1981.
  • UNHCR works in Ukraine since March 1994. From 1996 to 2011 UNHCR contributed over 36 million USD to Ukraine. UNHCR programmes have over the years enhanced the capacities of numerous Government agencies and non-governmental organization and provided life sustaining assistance to thousands of individuals (direct assistance in the form of food and non-food items, medical assistance or monthly subsistence allowance in 2011 amounted to 450,000 USD).
  • UNHCR has since its inception provided training and material support in the form of equipment (computers, vehicles, refurbishment of premises) to numerous Government agencies (the State
  • Committee for Nationalities and Religions, Regional Migration Services, Border Guards) to the tune of 2.5 million USD.
  • As of January 1, 2013 there are app. 2,500 recognized refugees and 5,875 registered stateless persons in Ukraine.
  • In 2011, the three countries’ programmes (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine) managed by the UNHCR Regional Representation in Kyiv amounted to 4.7 million USD ex-staffing.
  • UNHCR provides protection to refugees and other displaced persons on a non-political and humanitarian basis. The objective is to seek permanent solutions for persons who depend on international protection which, in the event of impossibility of return to the country of origin, entails providing for a supportive environment to integrate locally.
  • Globally there are 43 million forcibly displaced persons, the majority of whom receive some form of UNHCR assistance (15.2 million refugees, 27.1 million internally displaced, 983 thousand asylum seekers).
  • There are as many as 12 million stateless persons around the globe and 6.6 million are known to UNHCR in some 60 countries world wide.
  • Over the past 60 years UNHCR has saved millions of lives, by bringing donor funds and international political will to bear on the world’s refugee problems on a scale unimaginable prior to its founding.
  • In addition to saving lives, UNHCR continues to help millions of people to rebuild their lives, to return safely home or to find new homes.
  • UNHCR notes that Ukraine accepted to abide by international refugee law 10 years ago by acceding to the 1951 Convention related to the status of refugees and currently in the process of acceding to the 1954 and 1961Conventions on Statelessness.

Source: UNHCR web-site

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