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Posted on :March 25 2013
"I welcome the decision by the Government of Albania to resettle 210 former residents of Camp Ashraf, now temporarily located in Camp Hurriya. I have followed this issue very closely, lending my full support to the work of the United ations Assistance Mission for Iraq, and in particular the Secretary General’s Special Representative Martin Kobler, towards a peaceful and durable solution to this humanitarian issue. Permanent resettlement outside Iraq is the only such solution ...
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Posted on :December 13 2012
However the foreign Ministers of Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Finland ; during a meeting held two weeks ago have decided not to grant asylum to the members of MKO based on the current provisions.Le Soir also encouraged the United States to make more effort to move MKO members from Iraq ...
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Posted on :May 03 2012
As you are well informed that the relocation of Mujahedin/MKO/MEK/PMOI from Iraqi soil has been the request of the lawful and legitimate Iraqi government for almost a decade , and in the recent months with intervention of United Nations to this subject , logical and feasible solution regarding to relocation of the pmoi members to the temporary and transitional liberty camp and then the relocation of those members to the third country has begun ..
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Posted on :February 19 2012
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton Saturday "very much welcomed" the news from Iraq that the first group of residents from Camp Ashraf has moved in a voluntary, orderly and peaceful manner to Camp Hurriya.
"I congratulate the United Nations - in particular the Secretary General's Special Representative Martin Kobler - for many weeks of sustained efforts to facilitate this critical first step towards a peaceful solution..
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Posted on :December 03 2011
High Representative Catherine Ashton will urge member states to take in some of the Iranians who are settled in the Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq, according to an EU official. The diplomat said that the EU was looking at ways to take in some of the refugees who have strong ties with member states, as the Iraqi government announced it wanted to close the camp before the end of the year. The camp was established under Saddam..
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Posted on :November 28 2011
To prevent such a bloodshed we are convinced, that it is necessary to offer the Ashraf residents the contact to their families and the “real world” outside the gates of Camp Ashraf, to reveal them alternatives to the violent fight for Camp Ashraf, which they presumably do not beware of because of the PMOI/MKO/MEK propaganda and indoctrination. We want to give the people in Camp Ashraf the possibility to recognize, that they can decide on themselves..
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Posted on :November 27 2011
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been trying to arrange to interview the more than 3,000 residents to determine who among them qualifies for refugee status and thus resettlement, but Iraq has yet to allow this...Iraq had proposed that the interviews take place at a Baghdad hotel. Talks were also under way on the possibility of housing those not immediately relocated to third countries at a former U.S. base near Baghdad
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Posted on :October 04 2011
... We wonder why international organizations including the UN are silent about the case. The UNAMI team in Baghdad invites the Iraqi government to respect the principals of human rights in relation to Camp Ashraf, but no one is trying to learn what Rajavi is doing to his own people inside the Camp. The inside of the Camp has never been searched or inspected. As everyone is warning against a human catastrophe by the leaders..
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Posted on :May 19 2011
Shortly after this raid, German MEP Barbara Lochbihler wrote a letter to fellow MEPs and maintaining “the claim by Ashraf residents to be cut off from water supplies was incorrect.” She stated that the “inhabitants of the camp [were] themselves victims of this totalitarian cult”...They said the recent bloodshed at Camp Ashraf “should not … distract us from an objective and level-headed analysis of the PMOI's track record,” urging “all members [of parliament] to seriously consider the history, actions and behaviour of the PMOI before signing any declarations or letters of support in favour of this group in the future.”
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Posted on :May 12 2011
MEPs from five political groups have sent a letter to their colleagues to brief them about the PMOI lobby in the European Parliament.The letter says that while the deaths at Camp Ashraf were uncacceptable, MEPs should not ignore the MEKs history ..The support the PMOI receives from members of Parliament allows its leadership to perpetuate their absolute power over the rank and file, of which most are believed to want to desperately leave the group. The hundreds of members who have managed to escape from Ashraf and have been screened by the UNHCR ..
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