UN News Centre 15 February 2012 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for the start of the relocation of residents of the settlement in Iraq formerly known as Camp Ashraf, urging the Government and the camp dwellers to continue to cooperate so that the process can be carried out in a peaceful manner. “The Secretary-General reiterates…
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UN Secretary General’s Statement on Camp Ashraf
New York, 15 February 2012 – Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Camp Ashraf The Secretary-General continues to closely follow the situation in Camp Ashraf. Over the past few months, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), under the leadership of his Special Representative, Martin Kobler, and in close cooperation with UNHCR, the European…
U.N. urges Iraq to move Iranian dissidents to new camp
REUTERS UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Iraq on Wednesday to speed up the transfer of Iranian dissidents at a camp near Baghdad to a temporary facility which the dissident group has compared to a prison. Camp Ashraf, 40 miles from Baghdad, has been home for 25 years to the People’s Mujahideen…
Ashraf, the litmus test for our democratic values
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL LONDON, Feb. 15 (UPI) — The vexing problem of Iran is the most difficult, complex and arguably over the next several years, the most consequential regional security issue the world faces today. In search of a durable solution for the Iranian crisis and Tehran’s quest to acquire nuclear weapons, the mullahs’ enemy…
Bipartisan Group of U.S. Leaders Calls on State Department to Remove Iranian Dissidents From Terror List, Urges UN to Protect Them
PRNewswire NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — A bipartisan group of former U.S. political and military leaders is calling for the U.S. State Department to remove a prominent Iranian dissident group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran/Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (PMOI/MeK), from its list of terrorist organizations, saying the classification is unjustified and 3,400 Iranian…