MMD: A request to the international community about Iraqis stranded at Belarusian border

INA – BAGHDAD
 
Ministry of Migration and Displacement - MMD announced the dispatch of a government committee to the Belarusian border, while it sent a request to the international community regarding the Iraqis stranded at the border.
 
“MMD is working in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help the return of the Iraqis stranded at the Belarusian border via the Order 73, and by that, flights have started as the returnees arrive in Iraq, and the ministry is in the process of reaching the stranded in Lithuania," said MMD official spokesman, Ali Jahakir, said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
He explained, "There is a committee that arrived in Poland, heading to the border with Belarus, to determine the number of migrants and their needs, and the possibility of submitting what can be submitted, to prepare a report for the government upon the return in the coming days,"
 
“The return of migrants who do not wish to return, needs an international and diplomatic effort to adjust their legal status in line with humanitarian standards for human rights, as we aspire to protect their lives," he noted, stressing the need for "migrants to be characterized by the standards that countries deal with as asylum or asylum seekers,”
 
He pointed out that "the number of stranded people is conflicting because it was not issued by an official authority,”