Despite previous agreements, 32 merchants were rejected form entering Camp Liberty in October

Two months after the plan of UN and U.S. Embassy in Iraq as well as the September 6th letter of Mrs. Beth Jones, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, the Ashraf suppressive committee in the Iraqi Prime Ministry continues obstructing the sale of Ashraf residents’ property and prevents entry of Iraqi merchants to Camp Liberty to sign contracts for buying the Ashraf property.
In October, 32 Iraqi merchants from various Iraqi provinces came to Liberty for signing contract upon prior coordination with UNAMI and Iraqi forces. Ashraf suppressive committee agents, however, prevented their entry and forced them to return while insulting and threatening them and confiscating their mobile phones. The Residents’ representatives had informed UNAMI and Iraqi forces of the coming of each merchant at least one day prior to their arrival.
UNAMI’s September 5th plan, which was prepared upon U.S. Embassy’s agreement, specifies: “The GOI shall allow the residents to sell their property at any time.…. The GOI shall safeguard and guarantee all Ashraf property.”
One day later Mrs. Jones underscored UNAMI’s plan and wrote that if the residents accept this plan “the United Nations will help facilitate the safeguarding of the property at Ashraf through your retention of a trusted local security firm. The U.S. Embassy will do its utmost to support these efforts.”
During these two months, not only none of the items of the plan and the letter have been accomplished, but the Government of Iraq systematically plans for steeling and expropriating the residents.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 4, 2013