Major Event

New family visit exchange from and towards the province of Oued Eddahab
11/15/2011

In a statement, made public, the Office of the Moroccan Coordination with MINURSO indicates that the exchange operation of family visits, led by the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) between the Kingdom’s southern provinces and Tindouf camps in southern Algeria, continued Monday, by the organization of the 33rd trip in 2011.

This exchange from and towards the province of Oued Eddahab concerned 60 beneficiaries belonging to 14 families.

Accordingly, seven families totaling 31 people from the province of Oued Eddahab embarked Monday on a UN aircraft at the airport in Dakhla to Tindouf, and seven families totaling 29 people, from Tindouf camps landed from the same plane.

This exchange took place in better conditions and all measures have been taken to ensure a warm welcome to the participants in this operation, the release said.

Through this exchange, the total number of people benefitting from family visits since March 2004 amounts to 11,989, including 5,761 people from the southern provinces of the Kingdom and 6228 from the Tindouf camps.

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