Refugees
Faeser and Austria’s Interior Minister: Return to Syria
Updated on March 26th, 2025 – 12:58 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The executive Minister of the Interior wants to talk to government representatives in Amman about migration. Jordan hopes that a large part of the Syrian refugees will return home.
The executive Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) has arrived in Jordan to talk to government representatives about flight, migration and security issues. She is accompanied by her Austrian colleague Gerhard Karner. With the hope of peace after the fall of the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, many refugees combined the hope of returning and reconstruction of their country, Faeser said after her arrival in the capital Amman, where she first spoke to Interior Minister Masen Al-Faraya. Germany will continue to support Jordan in the recording and care of refugees. “At the same time, we will exchange ourselves about the possibilities in particular voluntary return to Syria,” said the minister.
According to the government estimates, Jordan took up around 1.3 million refugees from the neighboring country from 2011. The Jordan Ministry of the Interior announced at the beginning of March that around 44,000 Syrian refugees from Jordan had voluntarily returned to their homeland since the Assad Regime’s fall in December.
Last week, the executive Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Minister of Development Svenja Schulze (SPD) promised 300 million euros in the prospect of the support of people in Syria and Syria refugees in neighboring countries as well as to support civil society and the education system last week. Syrian refugees and admission communities in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey are also to be helped with the money.
In early February, US President Donald Trump had made headlines with radical plans for the approximately 1.9 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. He proposed to develop the coastal strip largely destroyed by the war with Israel and to locate the residents in neighboring countries such as Jordan or Egypt. Jordan’s king Abdullah II decidedly rejected these suggestions during a visit to the White House on February 11th. “Jordan is an important partner in Germany and a stability anchor in the Middle East,” said Faeser. In the current security situation with the very volatile location in Syria, the terror of Hamas and the war in Gaza, this applies all the more.
