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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

[Tunisia] Tunisia Live - UNHCR to Support Tunisia in Closing Shousha Refugee Camp

10.10.2012. United Nations High Commission for Refugees representative Ursula Schulze-Aboubacar, has called on Tunisian authorities to support efforts to close the Shousha refugee camp in south-eastern Tunisia by June 2013.
 
Schulze-Aboubacar made the statement yesterday, following her meeting with Abderrazak Kilani, the minister in charge of relations with the National Constituent Assembly in Tunis, according to TAP.
 
Kilani also expressed his support for the inclusion of a clause in the new Tunisian constitution addressing the right to asylum and principle of non-expulsion for refugees.