Iraqi-Iranian Committee meets in Geneva to resolve مفقودي file two

| On 2013-05-07

BAGHDAD / electronic integrity

The International Committee of the Red Crescent in Geneva, that high-ranking officials from Iran and Iraq will meet for three days in Geneva, to follow up on the progress made ​​in the missing file during the Iran-Iraq War 1980 - 1988 under the auspices of the Red Cross.

The Red Crescent said in a statement issued in Geneva on St Patrick Joseph deputy director of operations in the Near East and the middle, who heads the Geneva meeting, "The Tripartite Commission, which includes the two countries as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross, already identified hundreds of prisoners of war and people who disappeared during the war between Iraq and Iran, and waits for hundreds of thousands of missing persons to know the fate of their loved ones, so the Commission faces significant challenges in the search for human remains in a very harsh environment. "

The statement pointed out that "the Tripartite Commission will review in the Geneva meeting the current results of seven joint operations for the exhumation carried out in 2011, and will discuss ways to improve the safety of the technical staff in the field of workers in that task, and improve the quality of work and speed, and the International Committee is committed to providing all the support."

He pointed out, "The Red Crescent will help the efforts of the Iraqi authorities and the Iranian neutral intermediary for the return of human remains between the two countries, and to provide training for workers in forensic medicine and the provision of specialized equipment for forensic laboratories in the two countries, pointing out that the efforts of the two countries and the assistance of the ICRC succeeded so far in the extract and identify about 800 of human remains. "


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