IOPCR concerned on UN Refugee Agency closure

The IOPCR issues a statement regarding the closing of
UNHCR's office in Libya

The IOPCR, a leading Libyan NGO well known as a number one partner to UNHCR in Libya concerned about the closure of the Refugee Agency. This Libyan humanitarian organization was doing very huge task in helping the Refugee Agency to visit detention centers and to release some asylum seekers and refugees in need of urgent medication or the alike. Now below is the official concern of the IOPCR on the closure of UN Refugee Agency in Libya.




“The international Organization for Peace, Care and Relief (IOPCR) has been working in close coordination and partnership with UNHCR Mission in the Libyan Jamahiriya for the past few years to address the challenges of migrants and displaced people in the country. The above mentioned partnership has achieved significant progress in finding appropriate solutions that would contribute to end the plight of irregular migrants and refugees.

The international organization for peace, care and relief (IOPCR) has received with regret and surprise the news on closing down the UNHCR office in Libya and the halt of its operation. IOPCR believes that such measure will have dire and negative consequences on migrants and the reception centers accommodating them that should increase the sufferings of those vulnerable people since they will be deprived from the humanitarian assistance provided by UNHCR in Libya.

It is be recalled that IOPCR has managed through its partnership and cooperation with UNHCR office to implement a number of projects and activities designed to help the migrants and refugees which have been subject to appreciation by the UN as well as several international and national NGOs.

In this regard, IOPCR would like to stress the Libyan Jamahiriya commitments towards refugees and displaced people in Africa and under its international obligations being signatory of 1969 Organization of African Unity (OAU) treaty on refugees that has been ratified by the Libyan Jamahiriya on 1981. Moreover, the IOPCR has been inspired in all its activities by the humanitarian approach and policy adopted by the Leader of the Revolution “Muammar Al-Qadaffi” towards African peoples and the need to pursue the struggle for the Continent's unity, progress and its full liberation from all forms of colonization, discrimination and awkwardness.

The International organization for peace, care and relief (IOPCR) would like to reiterate its appreciation to the role played by UNHCR office in Libya in the past few years and would like to commend all its humanitarian efforts and wish that quick and appropriate solutions could be found so that its role and humanitarian activities will be continued in the Libyan Jamahiriya”.



As IOPCR is one of the influential NGOs in Libya and Eritrean refugees are already aware of what it was trying to accomplish, they are optimistic on its influence in resuming the Refugee Agency in Tripoli.