Humanitarian situation of the Kurdish refugees and displaced persons in South-East Turkey and North Iraq

Order 545 (1998)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 25 June 1998 (22nd Sitting) (see Doc. 8131, report of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography, rapporteur: Mrs Vermot-Mangold). Text adopted by the Assembly on 25 June 1998 (22nd Sitting).

Thesaurus

1. The Assembly refers to its Recommendation 1377 (1998) on the humanitarian situation of the Kurdish refugees and displaced persons in south-east Turkey and northern Iraq.

2. The Assembly considers that it should play a more prominent role in promoting peace and reconciliation in the Kurdish regions of south-eastern Turkey and elsewhere. For this purpose, it instructs the appropriate committees to study the question more actively within their own areas of competence.

3. The Assembly instructs its Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe to study the issue of the Kurdish minority in the framework of the monitoring procedure concerning Turkey.