Madrid/València (EFE) They will stay in Valencia.
Specifically, the five refugees will be housed in centers of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Assistance (CEAR) belonging to the State Reception System in the province of Valencia, as reported by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
These people also have the status of refugees from the Syrian war, reported the Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, who received them together with the Secretary of State for Migration, Isabel Castro.
Welcoming them is “the best way for Spain to show solidarity, both for the refugees from the war and for those who have been affected by this enormous drama”, said the minister, who said that these people will turn to resources from the Security system Social of eleven Spanish provinces.
Specifically, the host destinations are Álava, Guadalajara, Málaga, Pontevedra, Seville, Soria, Tarragona, Valencia, Valladolid, Zaragoza and the Principality of Asturias.
The 89 refugees (47 men and 42 women) are families made up of parents and children, with a total of 16 family units, five of them single-parent, made up of a single mother with dependent minors; Of the total resettlers, 43 are minors (18 of them under 10 years old) .
Escrivá has affirmed that the Spanish Government has worked “intensely” to carry out the mission and has been pleased that Spain is “the first country in Europe to receive refugees at this time”.
He also thanked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), present at the reception, for their work in coordinating an operation that was carried out in “record” time.
The refugees were in an area of Turkey on the border with Syria and arrived at the Torrejón airport at 2:00 p.m.; A dozen institutions, agencies and entities have participated in the device for their transfer, in addition to the Ministry of Inclusion, which has coordinated the entire process from arrival to subsequent referral to reception system centers.
Escrivá also has the work of different ministries that have participated in the process, such as the Interior, with the presence of different units in the landing of the refugees; that of Foreign Affairs, which has done an “excellent job” at the Istanbul Consulate that “has expedited all the procedures”; and that of Defense, which has set up the Torrejón de Ardoz air base for the arrival of these people.
To questions from journalists, Escrivá has detailed that the initial plan was to receive 129 people, but that “for various reasons” 89 have finally arrived, so the ministry will work on a second contingent “as soon as the conditions are met” to bring more people.
At the same time, it has specified that, in addition to providing a housing alternative to the refugees, they will also be given support from a legal and psychosocial point of view.
According to data from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, since 2016 Spain has resettled 3,408 people, more than 80% of Syrian nationality.
In 2022, 1,112 people have been resettled, 1,045 Syrians, while as of today, 1,294 Syrians are being cared for in the reception system, 1,187 of whom have arrived within the framework of national resettlement programmes.
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