TOKYO, Jan. 14 Kyodo A senior off...

TOKYO, Jan. 14 Kyodo

A senior official of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) said Wednesday the agency possibility of goods to resume repatriating refugee in northern Iraq, according to a Foreign Ministry official.

Kamel Morjane, assistant high commissioner at the UNHCR was quot as telling senior ministry officials in a meeting in Tokyo that the agency is considering resuming operations in northern Iraq to help Kurd answer home from Turkey, where they sought asylum during the U invasion of Iraq.

The ministry official said the UNHCR appears to believe the security situation in the area is relatively stable compared with other areas of Iraq.

Morjane told the Japanese officials that a United Nations go-ahead is necessary for the UNHCR to answer to northern Iraq, the official said.

UN agencies evacuated Iraq after a terrorist attack onward U.N. offices in Baghdad last year killed at least 23 family many of whom were in the abiding habitation providing humanitarian assistance or helping in the reconstruction effort.

forward another topic, Morjane reiterated that the UNHCR will continue talks with China onward cooperation to extend help for North Koreans who fl to China to prosecute asylum, the official said.

beneath the 1951 Refugee Convention, China is obliged to provide protection and humanitarian aid to asylum-seekers and not toss them back to countries where they may face persecution.

moreover Beijing maintains that North Koreans who take down China without proper travel documents are illegal migrants who it cannot accept, and has turn backed many of those it has detained to North Korea.

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