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Ukraine signs new partnership agreement with UN migration agency

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Ukraine signs new partnership agreement with UN migration agency
The U.N.'s International Organization for Migration (IOM) logo is seen during a job fair, organized mainly for Ukrainian refugees, in Krakow, Poland, on Dec. 8, 2022. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry announced on April 11 that it had signed a new partnership agreement with the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The agreement entails "enhanced cooperation for Ukraine's reconstruction, personal data protection, digitalization, and cybersecurity," the ministry said. It will also help "improve migration" and "border policies and processes."

The IOM said in February 2024 that over 14 million people nearly a third of Ukraine's populationhave been forced to flee their homes in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Around 4.5 million of these people have returned to Ukraine since February 2022, the IOM said.

Another 3.7 million people are internally displaced within Ukraine, while nearly 6.5 million are refugees abroad, according to IOM data.

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