Wednesday, August 3, 2016

 

The Assyrian Aid Society participated in the workshop on the protection and care of cultural and religious heritage, and at the invitation of the Iraqi Institute for the conservation of Antiquities and Heritage and Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC USA) in the city of Erbil on Aug. 2nd & 3rd 2016, the delegation of AAS participated in the workshop which included Mr. Ashur Eskrya Assyrian Aid Society-Iraq and Mona Malik, the member of executive board for the Assyrian Aid Society of America, the workshop covered and discussed a number of topics related to archaeological sites, heritage and ways to preserve and protect them and the importance of maintaining the humanitarian heritage of national and religious minorities in Iraq and preparing for the post-liberalization of areas from the terrorists of ISIS (Daesh) by providing means of ensuring the return of our displaced people to their historical areas and restoring the confidence between the local community components and enabling them to overcome the remnants of war and restore normal life to the area through the adoption of social, urban and political projects that fit with the ambition of the indigenous peoples to maintain their ethnic and religious privacy on the remnants effect of destruction that occurred by terrorist Daesh organization on many of these areas, especially in Mosul and Nineveh plain.

 

The Delegation of AAS also met with Mr. Knox Thames the Special Adviser on religious minorities in the Near East and South and Central Asia in the US State Department and Mr. David C. Edginton the Cultural Attaché for United States Mission in Iraq. The meeting dealt with the role of the Assyrian Aid Society-Iraq in providing humanitarian and relief aid to our displaced people in Mosul and Nineveh Plain and support required to help the displaced to return to their areas of origin after the liberation from terrorist groups of ISIS (Daesh).