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Exode (des Kurdes d'Irak) - Institut kurde de Paris

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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVlEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAP~-RMsrA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASlN ÖZETi<br />

.THE refugees around Cukurca<br />

. constitute only one of many groups<br />

of at least 30,000 people. The other<br />

..sites are all equally difficult to accessfor re-<br />

.lief shipments. There are also thè"lranian<br />

;and Syrian bor<strong>de</strong>rs; the former with larger<br />

.numbers than on the Turkish'bor<strong>de</strong>rs and<br />

:.wi~ha frontier now apparenùy closed by'<br />

(Te~ran. European governments should :<br />

;take the lead in surveying this sector.<br />

Allin all, this is one of the most complex .<br />

relief tasks ever mounted and will cost<br />

hundreds of million of dollars, but this is '<br />

àfter all a fraction of .the cost of .the war.<br />

To win the race against the~f(urdish .<br />

'refugee problem will require US lea<strong>de</strong>r.<br />

ship of the kind we sawon t4e military and.<br />

diplomatic fronts of Desert Storm. In turn,<br />

:the US.must galvan~zethe United Nations .<br />

.agencies. . ," , "<br />

, Initially, the international effort should<br />

focus on putting a representative at each,<br />

refugee encampment along t~e bor<strong>de</strong>r,:<br />

making arrangements for immediate local<br />

procurement of urgenùy nee<strong>de</strong>d relief<br />

supplies, and <strong>de</strong>livering the material to the.<br />

refugee sites and to affected Turkish villages<br />

by road or helicopter, with airdrops<br />

as a last resort. To get reliefto the far-flung<br />

and remote encampments and to those"in<br />

Iraq requires something of the scale of the<br />

Berlin Airlift, though this time most of the<br />

effort willbe with overland transit.<br />

This relief effort will require extraordi-:<br />

nary work by the US and the UN. To engage<br />

the government into life-saving<br />

speed, the presi<strong>de</strong>nt should appoint as coordinator<br />

a distinguishedprivate individ-'<br />

ual with interagency powers. We must cut<br />

.through our own arid UN red tape with all<br />

possible speed. At the UN, a wi<strong>de</strong> mandate<br />

foqhe special coordinator, with full back.-<br />

ing of the secretary-general, is nee<strong>de</strong>d .<br />

....If the Kurdish refugees are not saved,<br />

'th.ewal; may well be best remembered for<br />

"the the tragedy inflicted on them .<br />

.• Lionel A. Rosenblau, executive. director of<br />

'Refugee International, leads a joint emergency<br />

assessment of the Kurdish refugee situation with<br />

dhe International Rescue CommiUee.<br />

Editors' note: SinceMr. Rosenblatt's<br />

visit to the bor<strong>de</strong>r" area last week, international<br />

relief efforts for the refugees have in- .<br />

creased, and the US military is starting to<br />

move some refugees out. of the ~untains<br />

into secured camps innorthern Iraq. How ...<br />

ever, the refu/{ees' relief needs remain acute.<br />

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FRA03~7 4 PI 0364 FRÄ /AFP-F~69<br />

"ONU-France~hu r:,<strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong><br />

Michel Rocar'd:."Tout <strong>de</strong>vrait se terminer bien" quant. à l'ai<strong>de</strong> hl~manitaire au:-:<br />

~\IAr<strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong><br />

PARIS, 19 avr (AFP) - Le Premier ministre M. Michel Rocard a déclaré<br />

vf?ndredi que "tOl~t <strong>de</strong>vrait se terminer bien" etl ce qui concerne l.'ai<strong>de</strong><br />

humanitaire aux Kur<strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong>, è l'iss~e" d'un déjeuner ave~ le secrétaire général <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong><br />

Nations Unies M. Javier Perez <strong>de</strong> Cuellar et <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong> responsables <strong>de</strong> l'organisation<br />

::interna tionale.<br />

"Personne ne veUt qL~'on se tire <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong>sus, personne rie veut d'inci<strong>de</strong>nts. Il<br />

-F:::wt préserver l.a face ;à tout le mon<strong>de</strong>", a ajouté M. Rocar'cJ."Les ë.ll~torités<br />

irakiennes se posent <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong> problèmes. De notre coté, nous ne savons pas faire<br />

<strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong> opérations (humanitaires) sans que les forces armées, qui saht les mieux<br />

éqLdpées, les plus entrainées, sOietlt dans le coup".<br />

Le Premier ministre a réaffirmé la nécessité <strong>de</strong> l'donner une très gran<strong>de</strong><br />

dimension è l'ai<strong>de</strong> hl~manitaire" et rappel.é que "meL~rent par milliers tous les<br />

jOL~rs <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong> femmes et <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong> enfants" kur<strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong>. !J. a souligné ql~e "cette actimi<br />

humanitaire doit être faite en étroite corrélation avec l'ONU et, si possible,<br />

sous son chapeau, sous sa couverture juridique, et peut-être même sous son<br />

contrOle" •<br />

"Les démarches avancent petit è pet.it mais elles avancent. bien. La France,<br />

les Etats Unis et la Gran<strong>de</strong>-Bretagne sont en train <strong>de</strong> placer leurs moyens<br />

civils et, du point <strong>de</strong> vue <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong> transports et <strong>de</strong> l'encadrement, leurs moyens<br />

miJ.itaires", a poursLdvi M. Rocard. "Mais il ne faut pas qlH? ce soit ni une<br />

ingérence ni un acte belliqueux, donc la garantie <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong> Nations Unies est<br />

:nécessaire", a-t-iJ. ajol~té, en pr'écisant que "tlaUs allons plus vi te sur le<br />

terrain que nous tl'allons SlJr le plan juridiqw,?!"." .<br />

Lors <strong>de</strong> ce déjeuner, précédé d~un entretien, ont également été abordés '~le<br />

,problème cambodgi~n, ceux <strong>de</strong> Chypre et du Sahara occi<strong>de</strong>ntal, les difficultés<br />

que les Nations Unies essaient <strong>de</strong> traiter et pour lesquelles le secrétaire<br />

général, inlassablement et courageusement, se bat. La Fra~c:e l'appuie sur<br />

tCJt.Jtesces difficlütés", a dit M. Rocard.<br />

M. Perez <strong>de</strong> Cuellar, qui doit être reçu dans la soirée par le ministre <strong><strong>de</strong>s</strong><br />

Affaires étrangères M. Roland Dumas, s'est pour sa part refusé à toute<br />

déc]_aration.<br />

c:j/gm<br />

AFP 191653 AVR 91<br />

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