A total number of 109 MKO members transferred from Liberty Camp, Iraq to Tirana, The Albania Ministry of Interior Affairs announced, as reported by Aria Iran Association…The Albania Interior Ministry declared that since early July 2013 up to now, 38 liberty residents arrived safely in Tirana and resided in the Camp “Barbo”. These people departed, Iraq to “Rinas” airport in groups of 7, 14 and 17 people…
A report on MKO members in Albanian refugee camp
On June 19 and June 21, two groups of Camp Hurriya residents, 27 in total, were permanently relocated to Albania. This was the third of a series of movements..The United States strongly supports the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), and the tireless efforts of the UN Special Representative…
… “A total of 71 men and women now have safely arrived in Albania and have benefited from the government of Albania’s offer to accept 210 of the camp’s residents,” UN special envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler said in a statement. Kobler said that Germany had also offered to accept around 100 residents, and added that the deadly attack on Camp Liberty a week ago had “once …
This is the third group in a series of planned moves to relocate Camp Liberty [Temporary transit Location] residents to Albania.The third group comprised 14 MKO/MEK/PMOI members: 12 Men and 2 women.Names of some of the transferred members are as follows…..
The United States also reiterates its call to the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) to cooperate fully with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) process to relocate Camp Hurriya residents outside of Iraq as expeditiously as possible. The permanent relocation of residents is essential to ensure the safety and security of residents, especially …
Albanian Interior Minister Flamur Noka pledged to quickly complete arrangements to resettle the 14. He told The Associated Press that they [MEK/MKO/PMOI members] will get the refugee status immediately and then receive residence permits and proper documentation.”They will be treated like every other Albanian citizen,”he said, though”for the moment they will have the status of the refugee,”meaning…
“The government is ready to accommodate in Albania, for humanitarian reasons, 210 members of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran”, or the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), Prime Minister Sali Berisha said in a statement…The UN envoy in Iraq Martin Kobler and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf on Saturday held talks with the Albanian authorities over security measures and housing conditions..