[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14511]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      CAMP ASHRAF AND CAMP LIBERTY

  (Mr. SIRES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SIRES. Mr. Speaker, last month I joined 78 bipartisan Members of 
Congress in asking Secretary of State Clinton to ensure that Iraq meets 
its obligations and protects the 3,400 Iranian dissidents living in 
Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty.
  Residents of Camp Liberty are members of the MEK.
  In recent days, another 680 Ashraf residents have been relocated to 
Camp Liberty under a resettlement plan backed by the United States. It 
is important that we support these residents as they seek to liquidate 
tens of millions of dollars of their assets left behind at Camp Ashraf.
  A major problem of the relocation plan is that as long as the MEK 
remains on the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations, its 
members at Liberty will not be able to find countries which accept 
them.
  The Department of State is currently under court order to make its 
decision on the MEK case by October 1, 2012. It is my hope that the 
Department of State removes the MEK from the foreign terrorist 
organization list immediately, as it is the legal, moral, and humane 
thing to do.

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