Russia Supports the Political Demands of Iraq's Christians

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Moscow (AINA) -- On March 22 the Russian Assyrian Committee and Moscow Assyrian Ethno-Cultural Autonomy Organization received an official answer from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the establishment of an Assyrian autonomous region in North Iraq. The letter was signed by A. Kinshuk, Deputy Director of the Department for Middle East and North Africa. The letter states:


The majority of Iraqi Christians are residing in the Kurdish autonomous region, where the situation is safer than in Sunni and Shiah provinces. In our work regarding Iraqi issue we take into account the particular qualities of Christian confessions living in this country. In our contacts with representatives of Iraqi authorities and international partners we delicately try to let them understand the need of ensuring conditions for preserving of original culture of Iraqi Christians, their adequate representation in Governmental structures, achievement of civil peace considering legal interests of all confessions and non-admission of discrimination of ethno-religious minorities.

On March 30 Michael Margelov, the chairman of the Upper Chamber's Committee for International Affairs, in his interview with the federal broadcasting channel Russia, said that "the rights of Iraqi Christians, Assyrian and Chaldeans, should be taken into consideration. The US must stop ignoring them."

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I hope Russian Goverment will look up for old sources, where Assyrians fought alongside Russian Soldiers against Turks/Kurds and Persians...

We need everykind of help.....

This can be even a power fight between Russians and the US who knows..., we all know how dirty politic can be....


Khaya Umta Ashureta
 
What does this mean?

"...the rights of Iraqi Christians, Assyrian and Chaldeans, should be taken into consideration."
 
I hope that this declaration can be effective and help our people.

What may people do not know, is that if it was not for the Russians in the past, many of the "Christian" nations around Assyria (such as Greece for example) would be completely Muslim.

When I first heard that, I truly found it hard to believe.  But before Greece became a modern nation, there were apparently at one point much more Turkish Muslims living there rather than Greeks.  (The Turks outnumbered the Greeks greatly).  It was Russia under their Czar that  moved the Turks out and helped the Christian Greeks.  That is also true of Armenia, etc.  Russians have done a tremendous amount for the support and preservation of Christians in the East.

Time will tell if this is still true.

BarNasha
 
BarNasha said:
I hope that this declaration can be effective and help our people.

What may people do not know, is that if it was not for the Russians in the past, many of the "Christian" nations around Assyria (such as Greece for example) would be completely Muslim.

When I first heard that, I truly found it hard to believe.  But before Greece became a modern nation, there were apparently at one point much more Turkish Muslims living there rather than Greeks.  (The Turks outnumbered the Greeks greatly).  It was Russia under their Czar that  moved the Turks out and helped the Christian Greeks.  That is also true of Armenia, etc.  Russians have done a tremendous amount for the support and preservation of Christians in the East.

Time will tell if this is still true.

BarNasha
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Not just the preservation of Christianity in many regions, but of indigenous Christianity.  They never tried to convert those they were helping and in fact took a very negative stance against the missionaries who filled the region post WWI to take advantage of a vulnerable population and create more divisions.  Following the fall of communism, the Russian Orthodox Church persuaded the Russian government to ban these same missionary groups from the country who were repeating the same tactics they used in the past.  I'm not sure if that ban is still in place.
 
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