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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 09:18 PM
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One-sixth of Iraq's residents displaced – UN
http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/english/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=85051&NrIssue=2&NrSection=1

"One-sixth of Iraq's residents are displaced inside and outside of the country, UN secretary general's representative, David Shearer, said on Tuesday.

Shearer referred to the necessity of enacted a national policy to deal with this issue.

The Iraqi Minister of Immigration and Emigration said that the national policy aims at finding a permanent solution for emigrants and displaced people's problems.

"Iraq has faced big problems and difficulties, represented by violence and forced displacement, which has resulted in the displacement of one-sixth of Iraq's residents both inside and outside the country," Shearer said in a speech he made during the first conference pertaining to the national policy to treat displacement that was held in Baghdad..."



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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 09:21 PM
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1. add that to 1,200,000 dead
8 -15 million w/out power, food, schools, & med care.
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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 09:31 PM
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2. Yes, today is better than tomorrow...
quote by an Iraqi.

Thanks.
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