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DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency willnext week start repatriating about 12,000 Burundian refugeessheltered in Tanzania's western region of Kigoma, a tripartitemeeting between Tanzania, Burundi and the UN High Commissioner forRefugees (UNHCR) agreed on Thursday.


A statement issued at the end of the one-day 19th tripartitemeeting in the east African nation's commercial capital Dar esSalaam said the refugees who have volunteered to return home willbe repatriated from September 7 through December this year.


The meeting chaired by Tanzania's Minister for Home AffairsMwigulu Nchemba requested the World Food Programme (WFP) to providefood for the returning refugees in Burundi for three monthsbeginning September.


The meeting also appealed to the international community toprovide necessary support for the voluntary repatriation processincluding support for the local communities in Burundi.


Nchemba said the government was not forcing the Burundianrefugees to return to their country explaining that the refugeeshad volunteered to go back home on their own volition.


"No one has forced them to get back to their country. They havebeen self-motivated and what Tanzania is doing is to facilitatetheir safe return home," said Nchemba.


He said Tanzania was aware that the situation in Burundi wasstable and allowed for the voluntary repatriation of therefugees.


Chansa Ruth Kapaya, the UNHCR Country Representative forTanzania, thanked the governments of Tanzania and Burundi for theirjoint interest and keenness to respond to the request by therefugees to be assisted to return voluntarily to Burundi.


Kapaya also appreciated the hospitality and generosity of thegovernment of Tanzania which has been host to thousands of refugeessince its independence in 1961.


Today Tanzania hosts some 350,000 refugees and asylum seekers,of whom 256,850 have arrived from Burundi since April 2015.


On July 20, President John Magufuli called on the Burundianrefugees now in the country to return home voluntarily and helpbuild their country, asserting that now there was security in thetiny central African country.


Magufuli's remarks were in support of an earlier plea byBurundian president Pierre Nkurunziza, who had called on his fellowcountrymen to go back home and help rebuild their country becausethe "war is over."


Magufuli also took a swipe at international humanitarian bodiesfor trying to convince refugees not to return to their homecountries because of continued insecurity, just so they cancontinue receiving aid from donors.