Innsbruck Minister make decision: trip to Syria due to terrorist alarm!

Innsbruck Minister make decision: trip to Syria due to terrorist alarm!

Austria's Interior Minister Gerhard Karner and his German counterpart Nancy Faeser broke off their planned trip to Syria. According to Kosmo , concrete warnings of a terrorist threat are the reason for this decision. The delegation was originally supposed to travel to Damascus to deal with security issues and the return of Syrian refugees, but the risk was classified as unpaintable.

Karner and Faeser are currently in Amman, Jordan, where they made the decision. The talks in Syria should take place under the strictest security precautions and not be announced in advance. The ministers had meetings with representatives of the United Nations as well as other organizations such as the UNHCR, UNICEF and the world nutrition program on the agenda.

refugee issue in focus

A central theme of the planned discussions was the return of Syrian refugees. According to the UN, 280,000 Syrians have returned to their homeland since the fall of the then President Bashar al-Assad. Almost 30 percent of Syrian refugees in the Middle East plan to return next year. 104,699 Syrians currently live in Austria. In the meantime, the government decided on a break in the family reunification for refugees and recorded only 39 asylum applications from Syrians this year.

In Germany, around 975,000 Syrian citizens live, including around 10,200 people who are obliged to leave. The German Ministry of the Interior is currently working on a regulation for temporary trips to Syrian refugees to their homeland, as Kosmo reports.

security situation in Syria

The security situation in Syria remains tense. The civil war, which has been going on since 2011, cost over 500,000 people and driven millions. Current developments show that there was a recent attack of Alawite Assad supporters that resulted in massive military actions and many dead. However, the agreement between the transitional government and the Syrian democratic forces (SDF), which could give hope for stability in the region.

The circumstances described show the complex situation in the Middle East and the challenges with which the international community is confronted. The interaction of regional and local factors as well as dealing with migration and terrorism is important for the future of the region. A comprehensive approach is necessary in order to meet the effects of such conflict-political and humanitarian, as in a