International agreement reached to relocate MKO members to Romania

Iraq reached an agreement with the United Nations and the European Union to expel the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI and PMOI) from Iraq as soon as possible. According to the Habilian Association, the agreement came after some three years of painstaking efforts of the UN and Iraq to relocate MKO members outside Iraq. Speaking to a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan-affiliated news agency, Foud al-Duraki, member of the State of Law Coalition in Iraqi parliament, said, “The third country had been agreed by Iraq, the UN and the EU to be Romania.” “The Iraqi Government does not want MKO members to stay in Iraq, as they participated in the oppression of 1991 revolution in Iraq with the former regime,” al-Duraki added. Voice of Russia had informed last month that when the US State Secretary John Kerry met with his Romanian counterpart Titus Corla?ean in Brussels in December, they took up the issue of moving the MKO to Romania. Earlier in March 2013, Albanian Prime Minister made the decision to offer asylum to 210 members of the terrorist MKO held in Iraq after a meeting with US Department of State Assistant Secretary, UN envoy in Iraq, and other officials. Although the MKO soon turned down the offer and demanded resettlement in the United States or relocation back to Camp Ashraf, after some two months, the first group of MKO members followed by the second and the third groups were moved to Albania.