IRAQ: COMECE, APPEAL TO THE SLOVENIAN PRESIDENCY OF THE EU FOR THE REFUGEES (2)

” ” "Before such a inhuman situation, destination countries overwhelmed by the arrivals and the risk of a proliferation of illegal immigration chains", mgr. Van Luyn asks "the EU to take action". "As when the Vietnamese boat-people were taken over by Europe in the Seventies", the president of Comece proposes that "the EU Governments take over the minorities of non-Muslim Iraqi refugees, a contingent of 60 thousand Christians, Mandeans and Yazites". In addition, mgr. Van Luyn asks that "the Governments of the countries neighbouring on Iraq be politically and practically supported in their efforts to accommodate these flows of refugees". Copy of the document was also sent to Franco Frattini, deputy president of the European Commission in charge of Migration.” “