SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The U.S. Ambassador to Iraq as well as the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq called for the implementation of the Sinjar agreement on Wednesday.
On the 8th anniversary of the Islamic State terror group genocide against the Yezidis, both U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Alina L. Romanowski and the UNAMI in separate statements called for the implementation of the Sinjar agreement.
“Eight years after the IS atrocities in Sinjar, the Yezidi community has still not achieved the peace and prosperity it truly deserves,” UNAMI said.
“Many Yazidis remain displaced from their places of origin. Due to continuing tensions, their ancestral homeland in Sinjar is still deprived of the essential stability needed to rebuild their lives, free of fear and intimidation” it said.
“No Yazidi, nor any other Iraqi, should be a pawn in local or regional power competition” it added.
“This is why the Sinjar Agreement must be fully implemented, without further delay. Stable governance and security structures are vital. It will allow the displaced to finally return home, reconstruction efforts to be accelerated, and public service provision to be improved” it continued.
“Today we join the Yezidi community in remembering those lost and the survivors of the IS genocide,” the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said in a tweet
“We renew our commitment to ensure Daesh can never inflict its hateful ideology again and encourage all parties to implement the Sinjar Agreement and the Yezidi Survivors Law” she added.
On October 9, 2020, under the supervision of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), the federal government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) signed a security and stability agreement for the district of Sinjar, aiming for security restoration.
Sinjar is a Yazidi majority town in Iraq’s northern Nineveh governorate that faced atrocities by the hand of the Islamic State terror group 8 years ago, IS committed horrific genocide against the Yezidis minority in the summer of 2014, August 3rd was a fateful day for them.
The agreement focuses on security and reconstruction. Administratively, the agreement calls for the selection of a new mayor.
It also mentions the withdrawal of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from the Sinjar district. The PKK moved to Sinjar with the advantage of a security vacuum in 2014 that resulted from IS attacks.
