Resolution 1022 (1994) on the Humanitarian Situation and Needs of the Displaced Iraqi Kurdish population
- Author: Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly
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Date:
27 January 1994
i.recalls Order No. 460 (1991), which remains in effect;
ii.demands that the Government of Iraq immediately and fully comply with all resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, and in particular put an immediate end to:
a.its acts of aggression perpetrated in and on the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region;
b.all harassment and blocking of relief efforts to that region;
c.its embargo on supplies to the region;
d.the genocide of the Marsh Arabs and the destruction of their habitat;
e.the persecution of other minorities in Iraq;
iii.on the member states of the Council of Europe to use their influence with the Security Council of the United Nations with a view to:
a.bringing the United Nations Guards contingent in Iraq up to its original strength of 500 in view of its positive role in protecting relief convoys and in providing the humanitarian organisations and the United Nations with security guidance as well as access to its communications, transport and medical facilities;
b.examining the possibility of:
-exempting the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region from the economic sanctions against Iraq, provided that adequate control can be established over its borders with the rest of Iraq;
-lifting the sanctions against Iraq in consideration of its government's recent agreement to comply with Security Council Resolution 715 and in return for compliance with all relevant United Nations resolutions, respect for the autonomy of the Iraqi Kurdish region, and the halting of the persecution of other minorities;
-deploying the United Nations Guards in southern Iraq and in the Kurdish areas under Iraqi governmental control;
iv.appeals to the Governments of France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, in co-operation with the Government of Turkey:
a.to extend the existing "security zone" in northern Iraq by prohibiting Iraqi forces from entering the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region;
b.to extend the existing northern "air exclusion zone" to below the 35th parallel;
v.recommends that the European Union consider giving greater priority in its aid programme to mine-clearance, training in mine removal and schemes to promote community awareness of the dangers of mines;
vi.appeals to the member states of the United Nations, in particular to the United States of America and to Council of Europe member states, as well as to the European Union, to step up urgently and generously their contributions:
a.to relief and reconstruction efforts on behalf of the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region;
b.for the alleviation of the plight of women and children in particular;
c.in support of the strengthening of the United Nations Guards contingent in Iraq;
vii.requests that the governments of the Council of Europe member states introduce and finance, through the Social Development Fund, projects for the resettlement, training and employment of refugees in the Iraqi Kurdish region, in particular women and children;
viii.demands that the Government of Iran stop forthwith its shelling of Iraqi Kurdistan and foster the return of all Iraqi Kurdish refugees remaining on its territory.
[1]Assembly debate on 27 January 1994 (6th Sitting) (see Doc. 6984, report of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography, Rapporteur: Mr Eisma).
Text adopted by the Assembly on 27 January 1994 (6th Sitting)
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