The United Nations is to move Iranian Kurdish refugees, living at Al-Tash refugee camp near the border town of Al-Ramadi, to Iraqi Kurdish areas. The decision was made because of the "deteriorating security situation" in Al-Ramadi, the UN official in charge of refugees Amin Awwad said Wednesday. "We have called for a special status to be given to the Iranian Kurds," Awwad said. He added that there were up to 680,000 Arab or Kurdish refugees in Iraq nowadays.Turning to the issue of repatriating Iraqi refugees in Europe, Awwad called on the EU countries not to repatriate those who were "forcibly driven out of their country" and to "abide by international treaties in this connection." Meanwhile, the representative at the UN of the Kurdistan Regional Government Dindar Zibari said that a joint committee was formed representing the two Kurdish administrations of Irbil and Suleimaniya. The joint committee was formed in order to help the UN move the Iranian refugees to new and safer areas in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zibari said. He added that the Iraqi government also agreed to move the Iranian refugees to safer areas.