Albania

UN: 14 Iranian Exiles Moved From Iraq To Albania

Albanian Interior Minister Flamur Noka pledged to quickly complete arrangements to resettle the 14. He told The Associated Press that they [MEK/MKO/PMOI members] will get the refugee status immediately and then receive residence permits and proper documentation.”They will be treated like every other Albanian citizen,”he said, though”for the moment they will have the status of the refugee,”meaning…

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Albania to take in members of MEK

“The government is ready to accommodate in Albania, for humanitarian reasons, 210 members of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran”, or the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), Prime Minister Sali Berisha said in a statement…The UN envoy in Iraq Martin Kobler and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf on Saturday held talks with the Albanian authorities over security measures and housing conditions..

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