MOSCOW, September 18. /TASS/. Work to resettle refugees from Syria’s Rukban camp will begin on September 27, Russian Colonel Leonid Antonik told an emergency meeting of the Russian and Syrian interdepartmental centers on refugee resettlement.
"The Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides in Syria and Refugee Migration Monitoring has just received an updated plan on getting the remaining refugees out of the Rukban camp from the United Nations Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Syria Corinne Fleischer," he specified, adding that "the plan’s implementation is scheduled to begin on September 27."
Alert by the Russian military
Russian military police will oversee the evacuation of refugees from the camp Rukban in Syria, the head of the reconciliation center, Major-General Andrei Bakin told the media.
"Thirty five Russian military police and twelve pieces of military and specialized equipment have been commissioned to arrange for the centralized evacuation of refugees from Rukban through the JIeb checkpoint," Bakin said at an urgent meeting of the Russian and Syrian interdepartmental centers for the camp evacuation.
Rukban camp
The Rukban refugee camp emerged on the Syrian-Jordanian border in 2014 after Amman had closed the border due to security and economic concerns. The adjacent area, controlled by illegal armed gangs, is torn by a severe humanitarian crisis. Refugees are expected to leave the camp in September.