Jordan will hold an international conference on Tuesday to discuss Iraqi refugee issues, the local media Al-Ghad said on Sunday.
Representatives from Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon will attend the meeting, while Turkish, Irani representatives and officials from United Nations are also scheduled to take part in the meeting as "observers", said the report.
Iraqis residing in Jordan cost the country some 2.26 billion U.S. dollars over the past three years, according to Jordanian Prime Minister Nader al-Dahabi.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres said during a one-day visit to Jordan last month that Jordan has been coping with a considerable burden while hosting hundreds of thousands of Iraqi nationals and deserves more help.
The agency is considering extending new support for water and sanitation services in the areas that have dense Iraqi populations, said Guterres.
In January, the UNHCR appealed for 261 million dollars for programs to "support the most vulnerable of the uprooted inside and outside Iraq."
The agency estimated that more than 2 million Iraqis have fled their homeland for safety abroad to wait out the war, with more than 700,000 and 1.2 million spilling into neighboring Jordan and Syria respectively.
Source:Xinhua
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