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Citizenship and Immigration committee  They will have their own ways of accommodation. They will have their own ways of screening the refugees. We are not here to do their job; we are here just to propose—

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —what the process is, in order for them to follow this process or, having a map, how to proceed in dangerous areas, as you indicated. With regard to security, it was very clear in the proposal that many areas in Kurdistan, such as Erbil, are very secure areas. We have more than

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, yes. We have their co-operation.

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. It's important, absolutely. If you read the proposal, we covered as much as we can—

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —but in the last two years, quite frankly, at least we are doing something about it; at least we are on the ground. I am going to the region in a few days. We are dealing with the locals. We have gone there many times. We deal with ORAT, which is an organization that has its own

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree, and I have no comment.

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe the time is immediately, but the time frame in the next two months if we can start to move. If we can start right now, and we start to receive the first refugees within a timeline, I would say between a month and a half to two months.

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree with you. All of the recommendations we read today are wonderful, but it's a matter of action. It's one thing to say, “Yes, we agree with your recommendation”, but it's another thing if the government will listen to us or not.

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're talking about the first trip we did, when the attacks on the Yazidi were starting. We were there at the very beginning. One of our main concerns was that we didn't know how the Kurdish region would deal with the refugees. In the beginning, our first choice always is not to

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Before you use my report against me, I would ask you, have you been there before? Have you seen the situation yourself?

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You haven't been there, okay. I've been there. So when this happened, once again, we were hoping that through the Kurdish community we would be able to have a stable life for them. So we brought medication. We started a project—

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have to respond to you.

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, but I just have to respond to you if you don't mind.

July 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Rev. Majed El Shafie