Canada plans to resettle 5,000 Bhutanese Refugee

Canada has announced that it would resettle up to 5 thousand Bhutanese refugees living in camps of eastern Nepal. AFP news agency has said that Canada would resettle those refugees over the next three to five years.

The report quoted Canadian Immigration Minister Diane Finley as saying that the decision to resettle up to 5,000 refugees in Canada was part of a coordinated effort by a number of countries to address this longstanding refugee situation once and for all.

Some 108,000 Bhutanese refugees have been living in seven camps in eastern Nepal since the early 1990s.

Over the past few years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has tried a combination of voluntary repatriation, local integration and resettlement.