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Central Asian Experience with Individuals Returned from Syria and Iraq: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

The Â鶹APP Counter-Terrorism Centre within the Â鶹APP Office for Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT/UNCCT) and the Â鶹APP Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) are organizing an online side event entitled ¡°Central Asian experience with Individuals returned from Syria and Iraq: successes, challenges, and lessons learned¡± on the margins of the high-level segment of the 75th Â鶹APP General Assembly.

Thousands of individuals are still stranded in camps in north-eastern Syria and Iraq in dire conditions, exacerbated by the COVID19 pandemic. The side event aims to highlight the Central Asian experience and the Â鶹APP support available to Member States that have repatriated or are committed to repatriating their nationals from camps in northeastern Syria and Iraq.

• WHEN:Friday 25 September 2020 from 10 AM to 1PM, EDT (New York Time)
• WHERE:The event with broadcast live on

The Panel

• Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the Â鶹APP Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) (Statement)
• Ms. Natalia Gherman, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Asia, Head of the Â鶹APP Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia
• Representative from the governments of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
• Civil society representatives
• Representatives of UN agencies that have worked to support Member States on returnees, such as Â鶹APP Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Â鶹APP Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Â鶹APP Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)