Georgia offers housing to Ukrainian asylum seekers
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Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees who fled their homeland will receive housing in Georgia.
Georgia is offering housing to about 500 refugees from eastern Ukraine who were forced from their homes by ongoing conflict.
Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia Sozar Subari said all people who had fled their home and country would be eligible to receive asylum in Georgia under accelerated circumstances.
"About 500 Ukrainians are seeking asylum in Georgia and the Government decided to give them housing by accelerated procedure. I also want to say that Georgia is among the nations who are the largest contributors of medical and other assistance to Ukraine,” Subari said.
Georgia sent more than 40 million UAH ($2.5 million USD) in humanitarian aid to Ukraine since July 2014 to assist the most vulnerable people affected by the continuing fighting in eastern Ukraine.
In September 2014 Georgia hosted about 130 children affected by the crisis in Ukraine to a holiday in Georgia where they could rest, relax and enjoy the sights and culture of Georgia.
Georgia has given the largest funding of 5 million UAH ($316000) for medication to assist the most vulnerable people affected by the continuing fighting in Eastern Ukraine during the last two months, says Georgian born Alexander Kvitashvili, who was appointed as Ukraine's new Healthcare Minister earlier this month, having held the same office in Georgia for two years.
More than a hundred of Ukraine’s youngest citizens are being offered the chance to escape the tension in their home country and enjoy a holiday in Georgia.
Georgia’s State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration David Bakradze is set to leave for Ukraine tomorrow.
The Secretary of Ukraine’s National Defence and Security Council Alexander Turchinov said NATO and EU member countries were Ukraine’s priority partners. The list of Ukraine’s close allies also included Poland, the United Kingdom, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Romania, Sweden and Australia.
Georgia is now granting refugee or humanitarian status to 95 percent of asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq, who have escaped the violent regime of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Georgian officials say.
Georgia’s Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia, Sozar Subari, is taking part in the 66th meeting of the Executive Committee of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva.
Almost a thousand foreign citizens are seeking asylum in Georgia, including people from Syria and Iraq who are fleeing conflict on their home soil, says Georgia’s Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili.
Asylum seekers from war-torn countries wanting to seek shelter in Georgia will be granted special permission to stay in the country for one year, says a Georgian official.
Official data reads that 947 people asked for asylum in Georgia in 2016. Meanwhile, 1,513 people have refugee and humanitarian status in the country.