MOSCOW. July 27 (Interfax) - Ireland's Department for Foreign Affairs said that Syrian refugees in that country have no desire to return to their homeland, a Russian Foreign Ministry official, Nikolai Burtsev, said at a meeting of an interagency coordination headquarters in charge of the return of Syrian refugees.
"The Russian Embassy in Dublin regularly updates Irish diplomats on Russian activities in the framework of the Syrian humanitarian dossier. Our diplomatic mission has been informed by Ireland's Department of Justice and Equality on the subject of Syrian refugees staying in that country. To date, 1,729 Syrians have been placed at Irish refugee-accommodation centers," Burtsev said.
"Meanwhile the EU Division of the Irish Department for Foreign Affairs said that no one in this group has any wish to return home," the Russian diplomat said.