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province, and would house between 30,000 and 40,000 refuzees. The isolated location had been chosen to minimise the risk of tion with the Iranian community, yet to integrate the re gees into the Iranian way of life (the two hardly seem reconcilable!) and develop further Iran's agricultural potential. Although the government wished to minimise the number of Afghans entering the cities, the vocational training schemes would take place there because they already had most of the necessary facilities. But participants would stay in the cities only for the duration of the course.
The UNHCR estimated that there were 1.9 million Afghan refugees: most had been registered and dispersed to different provinces. The only large urban refugee concentration was the 300,000 in Mashhad. The Iranians estimated that direct expenditure on the refugees was US $45 million.
7 May 1986
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