BAGHDAD, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Iraq on Thursday called on the United States to reconsider its decision to suspend support for international organizations operating within the country.
The appeal came during an emergency meeting attended by Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji, and several other ministers and senior officials, according to a statement by the media office of the Iraqi National Security Advisory.
The meeting discussed the impact of the U.S. decision to suspend funding for the UN community-based rehabilitation programs for Iraqi families returning from the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria. These families are being resettled at the Al-Amal Center in Iraq's northern Nineveh province.
It emphasized the responsibility of the international community to provide full support to the rehabilitation process for those families, many of them involved with the IS fighters, emphasizing that it is a shared responsibility, not Iraq's alone.
The Al-Hol refugee camp, located in northeastern Syria, houses displaced families of former IS fighters, including many Iraqis, Syrians, and foreign nationals. ■
