Tuesday, November 3, 2015

 

Tuesday, Nov. 3rd 2015, During their visit to the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the Minister of Defense Mr. Peter Hultqvist and Foreign Minister Ms. Margot Wallström from Sweden met with representatives of institutions of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrians People, Turkmen and Yazidis, by the attendance of Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden in Baghdad Ms. Annika Molin, where Mr. Ashur Eskrya President of the Assyrian Aid Society- Iraq met the Ministers at the Swedish consulate in Erbil.

 

During the meeting, Mr. Ashur talked about the situation of our People, especially the displaced from Mosul & Nineveh plain areas and their life difficult and the need for the international community to provide more support and assistance to displaced people and enable them to participate in the liberation of their areas through the support of the official armed groups to manage the security in their regions. Mr. Eskrya also called on the European Union to support the survival of small ethnic components in their regions and support to overcome the plight they face.

 

On their part, the two ministers, stressed on the stand of their country Sweden along with the rights of ethnic components and the support to stay at homeland and enable them to participate in protecting themselves and overcome the recent suffering. Also they stressed that Sweden will remain to provide all the efforts to help the displaced People and to give all needed to relieve their suffering.