Around 1000 Iraqis are out of Ukraine towards Poland

INA – BAGHDAD
 
Around 1000 Iraqis are out of Ukraine towards Poland since the beginning of the crisis as the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs – MOFA counted the numbers of the Iraqi community in Ukraine, indicating the taken measures regarding them.
 
"MOFA is following up on the escalated events in Ukraine, as far what is related to the Iraqi community which about 5537 Iraqi citizens, including approximately 450 students in 37 universities," said the ministry's spokesman, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, to the Iraqi News Agency - INA.
 
Al-Sahaf noted, "MOFA issued a statement last month urging the community to leave Ukraine and not to travel to it, as the Iraqi embassy took the initiative of forming a crisis cell to follow up on the community, as well as addressing 37 universities and the possibility of granting licenses to Iraqi students, in addition to instructing the Iraqi embassies in Hungary, Romania and Poland to allocate hot numbers,”
 
"Follow-up and coordination with the Red Cross and Iraqi embassies in Ukraine's neighboring countries resulted in the ministry's success in helping about 1000 Iraqis to flee towards Poland, and some of them went to Hungary and Romania," he explained, noting that "the ministry worked to grant entry visas to Ukrainian married couples – Iraqi fathers to travel outside Ukraine with their children,”
 
MOFA procedures are ongoing, as it has evacuated more than 80 Iraqi families who were besieged in the Sumy region and other areas under war, in addition to providing support to the families, according to al-Sahaf statement.
 
He pointed out the dialogues and efforts of the embassies in the countries neighboring Ukraine which led to Romania's approval of 90-days-residence to Iraqis on its territory.