MONDAY, DECEMBER 26 / 1 DECEMBER 2011 10:32
Twilight News / Iraq signed Monday a Memorandum of Understanding with the UN mission in Iraq is to "voluntary transfer" to the residents of Camp Ashraf, a transition to a temporary site to be resettled outside Iraq.
According to a statement issued by the UN mission in Iraq has received "Twilight News" copy, "The General Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Martin Kobler signed with the Iraqi government a memorandum of understanding provides for voluntary relocation of residents of Camp Ashraf, which includes elements of the PMOI opposition," He pointed out that "Iraq will be under the note by population transfer to the site of a temporary transition."
The Federal Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, announced last week that Iraq has agreed to extend the survival of some elements of the PMOI in the country for six months under a plan of the United Nations.
The statement added that "the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will start after the signing of the MOU process of determining refugee status, which is a necessary first step to resettle camp residents outside Iraq," noting that "the memo included a clear commitment from the Government of Iraq, it will ensure the safety and security of the population in the new location" .
A spokesman for Camp Ashraf Mehdi Akebai announced the "Twilight News" in the earlier rejection of the camp residents to leave Iraq by the end of this year, while the Iraqi government invited to give the European Union and the United Nations time to take actions their plans for the resettlement of the PMOI in Europe , asked not to bow to pressure Iran.
According to the statement Kubler said that "the note respecting Iraq's sovereignty and its international humanitarian and human rights issues, it also preserves security and the rights of camp residents", again call "of the member states at the United Nations to accept the residents of the camp in their own countries."
It is said that representatives of the United Nations conducted a series of joint meetings with the Iraqi government recently to find a solution to the issue of presence of Iranian opposition on Iraqi soil since the thirty years, on the other hand held the United Nations Mission to help Iraq intensive consultations with the residents of the camp to come to this conclusion recently.
The Mujahedeen-e Khalq (the People) was founded in 1965 to overthrow the Shah of Iran, after the Islamic revolution in 1979 opposed the Islamic regime, and took refuge in many of its members to Iraq in the eighties during the war between Iran and Iraq from 1980 to 1988, the Organization is the armed wing of the National Council of Resistance in Iran, based in France, but they announced it renounced violence in June 2001.
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