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"Madam President, Commissioner Füle said the Syrian crisis has profoundly affected its neighbours. Well, last November I visited Kurdistan in northern Iraq to see for myself the refugee camps that they have set up to provide shelter for over 230 000 men, women and children fleeing from the bloody civil war in Syria. I believe we owe a great debt of gratitude to President Massoud Barzani of Kurdistan and to the Kurdish people. Despite the suffering of the Kurds under Saddam Hussein, when over 180 000 were massacred in the genocidal al-Anfal campaign, nevertheless they have maintained their tradition of welcoming and sheltering refugees whom they regard as their brothers and sisters in need.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians, Turkmens, Shabaks and other ethnic refugees fled to Kurdistan during the insurgency in the rest of Iraq, and sadly that situation is now worsening and civil war, I believe, is imminent in Iraq. It is against that background that the Kurds have opened their borders to give shelter to the refugees from Syria, and we must provide the KRG with all possible assistance to enable them to deal with this new and overwhelming tide of starving and exhausted people.
One of the first things we must do, Commissioner, is open an EEAS consular office in Erbil. President Barzani called for this when he spoke in the Committee on Foreign Affairs two weeks ago in Brussels. It would be a highly significant gesture of support for Kurdistan if Baroness Ashton followed the example of many Member States, which have themselves opened consular offices in Erbil."@en1
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