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Repatriating orphans from Syria: Foreign Secretary’s statement

The UK government is facilitating the return of a number of orphans from Syria.

• From: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and The Rt Hon Dominic Raab
• Published: 21 November 2019

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said:

These innocent, orphaned, children should never have been subjected to the horrors of war. We have facilitated their return home, because it was the right thing to do.

Now they must be allowed the privacy and given the support to return to a normal life.

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Published 21 November 2019