Tuesday, October 4, 2016

 

Mr. Ashur Eskrya, President of the Assyrian aid Society-Iraq (AASI) arrived in Gothenburg city, Sweden on Tuesday October, 4 2016. He was greeted at the airport by president of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM), Scandinavian Chapter, Mr. Robert Shmoeil, a crowd of Assyrian people and representatives of the Assyrian organizations in Gothenburg. On the evening of October, 4 2016 Mr. Ashur met with members of the Gothenburg branch of the ADM at Hammurabi Assyrian Club. Also was present at the meeting representatives of different Assyrian church’s denominations and Assyrian associations in the city. Mr. Ashur spoke of the activities of the AASI including supporting the Assyrian Education Programs and helping the internally displaced people in Nineveh plains from different ethnicities and religious in addition to implementing various humanitarian projects in our people’s villages and towns, in corporation with international humanitarian Agencies.

 

Mr. Ashur Sargon met also with the Assyrian Federation in Gothenburg where he reviewed the last developments in Iraq with special attention to our internally displaced peoples from Nineveh plains and Mosul city. He also explained the role of the AASI in supporting the Assyrian Education Programs and humanitarian aids to all groups of people from Nineveh plains after ISIS occupation of their land. The logistic and humanitarian support of some of the international humanitarian organizations to the AASI was also mentioned in the meeting. After that Mr. Ashur answered all the questions that were presented during the Q&A. He thanked our people in Sweden in general for their generous support during the past difficult times that our people had after evicting them from their homes and lands in Nineveh plains and Mosul city.

 

At the end of his visit to Europe, Mr. Ashur Sargon visited the Kingdom of Holland where he participated on October 6, 2016 in a meeting of the foreign relation committee in Hague, the Dutch parliament. Present at the meeting also were delegates from Iraq that included Mr. Jacob Gewargis MP from Rafidain list, Mr. Suroud Saleem MP from Nahrain Sons list and Hurmizd Isaac who is in-charge of ADM branch of Western Europe. The meeting was coordinated by Mrs. Attiya Gamri an Assyrian national activist who is in charge of women organization at the Dutch labor party. The meeting was designated to discuss our people situation in Iraq especially the IDPs and the developments of Nineveh liberation and the future of our people and Nineveh province. At the end, the meeting participants asked the Dutch government and parliament to help and support the legitimate aspiration of the small ethnic and religious groups in Iraq to maintain their existence in their lands. Also they called upon the international community to take its legal role to maintain the ethnic and religious diversity of the Iraqi society especially with the dangers that faces the small groups from the both religious zealots and ultra nationalist in the country. Mr. Han ten Broeke the chairman of the foreign relations committee and the committee members expressed their deep understanding and support for all the concerns and dangers that all ethnic groups has expressed in the meeting and they promised to continue their work toward achieving the goals of equal rights under the law for all the groups in Iraq.