Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security of the Senate of the Parliament
of the Czech Republic
adopted on its 9th Session on 15 June 2011 following resolution concerning the situation in Camp Ashraf
Committee
I. supports
The solution proposed by the European Parliament’s Delegation to Iraq led by Mr Straun Stevenson on 10 May 2011 for the issue of Ashraf according to which Iraqi forces must be removed from Camp Ashraf, the siege on the camp must end and the wounded and patients must have free access to medical treatment, all the belongings confiscated on 8 April must be returned to the camp residents and an independent inquiry into the crime of 8 April 2011 must begin.
II. joins
the appeal on the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Madam Pillay (High Commissioner for Human Rights), Baroness Ashton (EU High Representative) and the international community to support the European Parliament Delegation’s proposal and act towards the following steps:
• The United Nations to assume protection of Ashraf and a UN monitoring team to be permanently stationed inside the camp, with support provided by the United States and European Union;
• Immediate departure of Iraqi forces from Ashraf
• Lifting of the siege and free access to medical treatment by the wounded and patients;
• Appointment of a representative by the UN Security Council to conduct an inquiry into the April 8th crime and to hold the perpetrators to account.
Jozef Regec Jaromir Stetina
Committee Chairman Committee Verifier