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UN refugee head wants more Afghan refugees to return
The head of the United Nations refugee agency called on Saturday for greater efforts to increase voluntary refugee returns to Afghanistan, which have virtually come to a halt amid a worsening security situation.
Around 4.5 million Afghans who fled their homeland during 30 years of almost continual war began returning from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran after the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban. But Antonio Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told a news conference the number of refugees now returning was "very, very small" because living conditions in Afghanistan were again deteriorating. (Reuters)
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