{"id":2267,"date":"2016-10-31T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambbaghdad.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2016\/10\/cooperazione-italiana-allo-sviluppo-2\/"},"modified":"2016-10-31T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:57:12","slug":"cooperazione-italiana-allo-sviluppo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambbaghdad.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2016\/10\/cooperazione-italiana-allo-sviluppo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Development Cooperation and Community of Sant&#8217;Egidio. The Iraqi Government receives humanitarian aid for IDPs in Fallujah."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 1px auto; border: 1px solid #000000; vertical-align: middle; display: block;\" src=\"resource\/img\/2016\/10\/egidio.jpg\" alt=\"egidio\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, 31st October 2016, the Ambassador of Italy to Iraq, Marco Carnelos delivered a speech\u00a0to the Iraqi press\u00a0during the delivery and taking in charge by Iraqi Authorities of the first tranche of medical emergency supplies donated by the Community of Sant\u2019Egidio in order to alleviate the serious conditions of IDPs in Fallujah.<\/p>\n<p>The humanitarian operation has been undertaken in a coordinated fashion by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Community of Sant&#8217;Egidio and the Italian Ministry of Defence, by which the aircraft for the\u00a0transportation of the aid has been\u00a0provided. A second\u00a0operation of the kind will deliver an important shipment of medical goods\u00a0on next 8th November.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Carnelos commented on\u00a0the operation together with Counsellor Kathan Al Jibouri from the Presidency of the Republic and Mr. Andrea Trentini from Sant\u2019Egidio Community.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Carnelos highlighted the nature of the wider humanitarian operation of which today\u2019s shipment is an important part of. The Italian Development Cooperation has organized the transportation by ship of over 12 tons of humanitarian aid, tents and emergency kits due to arrive in Basrah before the end of November and destined to the IDP camps in Fallujah district.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador recalled the important role the Government of Italy has played in the effort to counter the humanitarian emergency which has been affecting Iraq since 2014, when Da\u2019esh territorial gains caused displacements of millions of people. More recently, new waves of displacement have come as a consequence of the Iraqi Army\u2019s campaign to liberate Iraqi soil.<\/p>\n<p>During the displacement that occurred last summer as a consequence to Fallujah\u2019s military campaign, the Italian Development Cooperation immediately provided with 1 million Euro some of the major humanitarian agencies conducting\u00a0operations in that area (UNHCR and ICRC).\u00a0Considering 2016 alone, the Italian Government allocated an amount of over 7 million Euros to counter the\u00a0 umanitarian crisis and to stabilize areas of Iraq liberated form the so called Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kathan al Jibouri thanked the Government of Italy for its geneorus and multifaceted support\u00a0in favour of Iraq and stressed the importance of relations between the Community of Sant&#8217;Egidio and Iraqi Authorities as well as Iraqi\u00a0civil society.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Today, 31st October 2016, the Ambassador of Italy to Iraq, Marco Carnelos delivered a speech\u00a0to the Iraqi press\u00a0during the delivery and taking in charge by Iraqi Authorities of the first tranche of medical emergency supplies donated by the Community of Sant\u2019Egidio in order to alleviate the serious conditions of IDPs in Fallujah. 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