Country: Iraq

Committee: 1
Topic: Syrian refugee crisis
Delegate: Jacquelyn Hurtado

Opening Statement
Approximately 13.1 million people need humanitarian assistance in Syria.
Throughout the whole middle east, more than 1 out of 20 people are displaced and
Syrians are being forced to leave their country seeking refugee status in neighboring
countries, for example Iraq or to further countries. This is a global issue that needs to be
addressed, about 4.8 million Syrian refugees or more are in 5 of the neighboring
countries (Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq.)

National Actions
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, aka ISIS, is in Iraq. In 2013 Syrians who went to
Iraq and were granted refugee status were trapped in Iraqs own conflicts with their civil
war, dealing with ISIS and helping those internally displaced. Iraq is struggling to take
care of the Syrian refugees that they have on top of 3+ million people that are internally
displaced. Iraq wants to help but not being able to take of those that are internally
displaced in the country will make it more difficult to help refugees.

UN actions and International actions

$4.5 billion was required in 2016 to help provide emergency support to families
throughout the middle east, they only got $2.9 billion by March 2017. There is a United
Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq that was established in 2003. The UNAMI helps
with many things, for example by facilitating dialogue between Iraq and its neighbours.

Recommendation for action

In Iraq, where they 3.1 million people internally displaced, has about 228,894
syrian refugees. Iraq acknowledges the Syrian refugee crisis and wants to focus on the
issue of ISIS within both Syria and Iraq. Once Iraq is in a stable position after recovering
from their civil war and helping those displaced, Iraq would want to help more refugees.

Works Cited
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"Iraqi Militia Fighters Pour into Syria to Support Assad." Fox News. FOX News Network.
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"Quick Facts: What You Need to Know about the Syria Crisis." Mercy Corps. 07 Apr.
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"UN Assistance Mission for Iraq." United Nations Iraq. Web. 28 Apr. 2017.