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IRAQ: UN VOICES CONCERN OVER SHELLING OF NORTHERN KURDISH AREAS: 12/9/2007
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- 12 September 2007 –
The top United Nations official in Iraq voiced
concern today over the intermittent shelling of areas in the northern region of
Kurdistan.
“Such
incidents continue to cause damage and consternation among the civilian
populations in these areas, disrupting their daily lives,” Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative Ashraf Qazi said in a statement issued by
the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).
Mr. Qazi
recently discussed the issue with all relevant parties and urged them to use
their good offices to ensure an immediate end to the shelling. He called on all
concerned parties to refrain from activities that “can lead to further
destabilization of the political and humanitarian situation in Iraq,” the
statement noted.
He
stressed that “a stable, secure and peaceful Iraq is in the interests of Iraq,
its neighbours and the wider region.”
UN
agencies have been in touch with the governorate and local authorities and have
undertaken assessment missions to ascertain humanitarian needs, providing tents,
blankets, cooking equipment and other emergency items to several hundred
displaced families as well as emergency supplies to hospitals treating the
wounded.
Work was
going on to ensure adequate water supplies to those affected, UNAMI added.
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