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tion on assisted voluntary return services. Among the five refugee camps in the country, IOM
personnel have visited four of them. Direct contacts with migrants prove to be useful.
Migrants also take the initiative to visit the IOM office for assistance. Due to financial constraints,
it is not possible for IOM to make frequent visits to these facilities. Some NGOs in the
country are informed of IOM’s assisted voluntary return programmes; and they may also inform
migrants of the existence of voluntary return assistance.
In addition to assisting aliens to leave Slovakia, the IOM office also assists returning Slovak
nationals. IOM has helped 81 Slovak returnees from Netherlands and 84 Slovak returnees from
Belgium in their reintegration activities in the country.
2.3 STATISTICS ON VOLUNTARY RETURN
The following table shows the number of persons returned with the IOM programmes of
assisted voluntary return.
Year 1996 –
1998
Number
Returned
TABLE 3
STATISTICS ON ASSISTED VOLUNTARY RETURN
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
(till Oct.)
99 91 9 46 44 79
The following tables show the destinations of returns out of Slovakia.
TABLE 4
DESTINATIONS OF RETURNEES:
2001
Destination Number Destination Number
Armenia 6 Turkey 4
Yugoslavia 25 Dominican Republic 1
Moldova 1 Belarus 2
Russian Federation 2 Ukraine 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 Macedonia 1
Guinea-Bissau 1