The UN's top official in Iraq has urged Baghdad to avoid violence in resolving the situation of more than 1,000 Iranian exiles currently located in a camp in Iraq.
The UN secretary-general's special representative for Iraq, Martin Kobler, also urged Iraq to tend to the needs of the residents of Camp Ashraf, where Iranian exiles, many of them members of a group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization currently reside.
In line with an agreement signed between the UN and Iraq last December, some two-thirds, or around 2,000 people, have been relocated to Camp Hurriya, a temporary location near Baghdad where their refugee status will be determined by the UN.
About 1,300 people in Camp Ashraf are still waiting to be relocated.