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National delegation meets Diyala governor and inspects shelters of returning displaced families.
Monday, March 15th 2010 12:21 PM
Diyala, March 15 (AKnews) - A common national delegation from the United Nations and the Embassy of the United States discussed with Diyala governor and his advisers the prospects of cooperation and coordination to support the returning displaced families and to remove the obstacles hindering their return.
"The governor of Diyala province discussed with the UN High Commission for Refugees civil mission accompanied by a representative of the Higher Committee to follow up and implement the national reconciliation who supervise the projects of ensuring shelters for the displaced families and the ways to support these families afterwards, in particular complementary service projects", the media adviser of Diyala governor Samira Shakir Shibli told the Independent National News agency of Kurdistan (AKnews).
"The representatives of IHEC and the World Health Organization of the United Nations participated in the discussions and expressed their readiness to implement the development projects covered by the commission about the shelter projects."
"Diyala governer has briefed the steps taken by the province to end the file of the displaced, and the common efforts of the provincial government with the Supreme Committee for Diyala Development which was headed by the adviser of Prime Minister Mohammed Salman Saadi, liberated the compensations seized by the Ministry of Finance for more than two years, which amount at 37 billion dinars and a half."
The representative of the Higher Committee for the follow up and implementation of national reconciliation Aqil Salman Zuhairi said that "The destruction in the Diyala towns and villages was very wide."
"The suffering of the displaced families is the hardest thing, so the Commission has focused on its cooperation with humanitarian organizations and donor countries to guide its projects to Diyala provine."
The coordinator of organizations in the United States Embassy in Baghdad, Ambassador Patricia Hazlak stressed on "intensifying her efforts to prepare the appropriate ground that would ensure the return of thousands of displaced families to their homes".
"The stability and security and the people's desire to end terrorism and displacement are the factors that help humanitarian organizations to reinforce their presence in Diyala province, and to implement their projects to improve and ensure shelters, agriculture, water, health and education."
Diyala province witnessed between 2006 to 2008 the roughest displacement campaign in the country; relevant departments estimated the number of families displaced at more than 30 thousand families, 12 thousand of them returned and about 35 countries are included within these projects, and the establishment of more than three thousand Shelters with bedroom and sanitary services.
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