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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) thanked Italy for welcoming 15 members of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and NCRI). |
“UNHCR welcomed the Italian government’s decision to let into the country a total of 15 Iranian refugees from Iraq, including the seven latest arrivals,” Gazzetta del Sud quoted UNHCR Italia as saying.
The UN’s refugee agency has repetitively called on the international community to accept some 3000 members of the terrorist MKO grouplet.
Earlier in December 2013, UNHCR said in a press release that it urgently “reiterates the need to find solutions for the camp’s residents, and is appealing to countries to act urgently on 1,400 cases from Camp Hurriya that have already been submitted for relocation.”
The press release added that since 2011, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) have been “engaged in an effort to find relocation opportunities outside Iraq” for some 3,200 members of MKO now residing temporarily inside Camp Liberty, a former US military base near Baghdad International Airport.
“So far, the international community has managed to secure the relocation to third countries of 311 residents, clearly demonstrating that more relocation places are urgently needed,” UNHCR added.
The relocations are in line with a memorandum of understanding signed between United nations and GOI on December 25, 2011 for a humanitarian and peaceful resolution of the situation of MKO members in Iraq.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) thanked Italy for welcoming 15 members of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and NCRI).