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"Mr President, can I take this opportunity to raise another matter of great urgency and great concern in the Middle East? I am referring to Camp Ashraf in Northern Iraq, home for the past quarter of a century to more than 3 400 Iranian dissidents who, as you know, have suffered from repeated attacks and harassment by the Iraqi authorities, culminating in a massacre on 8 April this year when 36 of them – unarmed civilians – were killed in cold blood.
As you know Commissioner, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has given the camp’s residents a deadline of 31 December this year to clear Ashraf. The clock is now ticking rapidly and although we have brokered a plan within the EU for resettling the residents to third countries, and some EU Member States – and even some countries outside the EU – have already started taking some of these refugees, we are running out of time and we are facing the prospect of another violent attack and bloodshed perhaps on a scale similar to Srebrenica.
I received information last night from UNHCR that the residents of Ashraf are protected under international law, but can I urge the Commission to follow the example of UN High Commissioner António Guterres and write to Nouri al-Maliki demanding an extension of the deadline to give us time to work on the resettlement plan, and in the meantime to provide some protection by getting a UN presence in Camp Ashraf."@en1
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