3000 Iraqis returning home every month, says German Chancellor
Migrants wait for their registration outside the State Office of Health and Social Affairs in Berlin on October 1, 2015. Archival photo.
(IraqiNews.com) German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced, that about three thousand Iraqi migrants are returning to Iraq from Germany every month.
Merkel said at a gathering in Baden-Wuerttemberg state, “At the moment, for example … three thousand people are returning to Iraq every month. This rate will increase while cities are freed from the grip of ISIS,” noting that, “It is also important to emphasize the importance of achieving stability and an end of the war in Iraq and Syria.”
Merkel said that the number of immigrants coming to Germany is on the decline.