The United States is contradicting itself with its stance about the return of refugees from Syria’s Rukban camp on the Jordanian border and has put forward conditions for the return of people residing there, the heads of the Russian and Syrian Joint Coordination Committees on Repatriation of Syrian Refugees said in a statement.
“A representative of the US-led international coalition against ISIS* in Syria Sean Ryan said there are no obstacles to the free movement of Rukban camp refugees. At the same time, the first Secretary of the US Embassy in Amman, Alex Hawke, authorised to discuss the problems of the Rukban camp, has outlined a number of conditions to allow residents of the camp to freely leave its territory”, the statement said.
The Rukban camp is part of the US-controlled zone around Washington’s Al-Tanf base in Syria. The World Health Organisation has said that people living in Rukban were trapped there, noting deplorable conditions in the camp.