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Is resettling refugees a success or repatriating?

20 September 2016, Amsterdam.  The foreign policy of the US President Barack Obama in regard to Bhutan particularly over the innate rights of the forcibly Exiled Bhutanese Lhotshampa ethnic minorities remained obscure during his tenure though his Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Biswal hailed from that regional background who could be in good book of the geopolitics there. US ambassador to Nepal and UNHCR, IOM representative with an Americaning Bhutanese. Photo: kathmandupost Much expected international pressure against Bhutan’s regime at least to recognise the Universal Declarations namely the article 13, that  Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country ’ and let a minimum number of their exiled citizens repatriate, indeed also as part of the burden sharing for resettling them as shown practically by Eight Western countries appear dropped out of the policy vista without putting any efforts.  W