Iran Press/ Iran news: Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli made the remarks Monday on the occasion of National Refugee Day, held at the venue of Conferences Hall of the ministry, and pointed to the drastic measures conducted by the Islamic Republic of Iran since the victory of Islamic Revolution with regard to housing refugees.
He added, “Issuing ID cards for all refugees to a number of about one million refugees, organizing literacy courses for more than one million refugees, promoting the level of refugees’ literacy, offering quality healthcare and medical services under the Health Reform Plan, etc. are of the notable achievements taken by Iranian government for refugees in the country,” Mehr News Agency reported.
“World Refugee Day is a cultural and international credit that United Nations Assembly has named after to express sympathy, compassion, and dignity of refugees in a resolution agreed by the majority of members of the international community,” the Interior Minister continued.
He went on to say that on one hand, the World Refugee Day indicates numerous agony and pain of suffering people from civil war, regime change, destabilization of governments, foreign interventions, occupation, terrorism and natural disasters in some cases.
Rahmani Fazli added, “On the other hand, it is a field for verifying culture of altruism, philanthropy, sacrifice, compassion and human dignity as well as a rest for identifying the distinction between declarative and actionable policies of governments in the international arena.”
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