United Nations Seeks Aid for Displaced Iraqis
April 17, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The United Nations’ refugee agency appealed today for governments to provide aid to nearly four million Iraqis driven from their homes by the war, and for those sheltering them inside and outside Iraq, the Reuters news service reports.
About two million Iraqis have fled to Syria and Jordan, whose governments are struggling “without any meaningful support from outside,” and another 1.9 million Iraqis are uprooted within their homeland, said Antonio Guterres, the United Nations’ high commissioner for refugees, at a two-day international conference in Geneva.
“It is time that the international community responded with genuine solidarity and unstinting aid to displaced Iraqis and to the states housing them,” Mr. Guterres said.
