The head of the Red Cross Robert Mardini says he has discussed in Iran the plight of Afghan migrants who fled their country after the Taliban took power last year.
After two days of talks in Tehran with Iranian authorities Robert Mardini said,” Afghanistan was very much present in the conversation, especially in the wake of the recent developments that we witnessed in August with the change in the government.
More than one million Afghans have sought refuge in Iran since the Taliban returned to power in August, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA.
Thousands of Afghans daily try to cross into neighbouring Iran in search of work, or in a bid to reach Europe in the hope of asylum.
The Islamic republic now hosts a total of five million Afghans, according to Iran’s foreign ministry.
Mardini said the ICRC discussed with Iran’s Red Crescent ways of “providing critical health services to Afghan migrants and refugees”.
Mardini said he also discussed in Iran the situations in Yemen and Syria and the effects of the armed conflicts, as well as climate change, in those countries.
He said Talks with Iranian officials at the foreign and interior ministries also focused on the fate of missing persons from the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
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