UN says international staff are all out of Baghdad6 November – The United Nations confirmed today that all of its international staff have left Baghdad.
"As we announced last week, the international staff that had been in Baghdad have been temporarily relocated, and will hold talks in Cyprus, so that the United Nations can thoroughly reconsider its operations in Iraq and the security arrangements that it will need to work there," a UN spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said at a press briefing.
"I can now confirm that, as of today, all UN international staff have left Baghdad."
The UN said on 30 October that it was moving its international staff in Baghdad to Cyprus for security discussions with a team from its New York headquarters. The announcement came after an independent report found - in the wake of the 19 August terrorist bombing in Baghdad that killed 22 people - security problems and lax procedures in UN offices in the Iraqi capital.
The temporary relocation of the staff from Baghdad does not affect UN international staff working elsewhere in Iraq, mainly in the northern provinces. Some 4,000 Iraqi staff continue their work throughout the country.
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