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Article: EU urges release of relief workers kidnapped in Iraq
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 8, 2004
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EU urges release of relief workers kidnapped in Iraq
BRUSSELS, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- European Commission President Romano
Prodi has urged Iraqi militias to release immediately the relief
workers they kidnapped in the country.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Prodi called for the
immediate release of two Italians and two Iraqis who had been relief
workers in the war-torn country.
"I am shocked and horrified. The targeting of aid staff, men and
women who are in Iraq to help alleviate extreme suffering, is a
direct assault on universal humanitarian values. There is ...