Thank you in advance for your benevolent consideration of the ideas we briefly discussed earlier, which are thus summarized, and which you may want to draw to the attention of your concerned colleagues.

Asylum seekers from the Iraqi region needlessly represent lost opportunities - not only for themselves and their homeland, but also for society, the economy and the taxpayers of their mostly European host countries. In fact, it makes sense to cover their upkeep abroad under the oil-for-food program.

Lost opportunities in as much as the asylum policies of the woefully birth-deficient European countries primarily seek to integrate those who made it to Europe, rather than to prepare them for their return.  As the war-torn region of Iraq desperately needs locally enrooted qualified hands and brains for rebuilding society and for recovering and training the lost generations.  And as the host countries regularly fall below their traditional hospitality standards, closing themselves up to what are perceived as uninvited, even unwelcome foreigners who, at best, are competitors in the labor market and, at worst, live off the fruits of the locals' labors.  As such the locals not only resent the externally imposed and thus the more heavily-felt burden on their treasuries.  But they are also driven into failing to recognize, welcome and realize the cultural enrichment regularly associated with the free movement of self-sustained, self-confident and esteemed persons.

Needlessly, because the very same persons - who often at great personal risks and costs thus have made it to Europe and elsewhere - could be its mutually beneficial, for welcome, paying guests.  They, and even their suitable relatives at home, could in fact be integrated in training programs designed for Iraq's reconstruction and fully paid for by Iraqi oil exports.  All this on the basis of an eventual decision by the UN Security Council, which would be inspired by the principles laid down in UNSCR 687 (§20).  Thus, the financial responsibility for Iraq's refugees abroad could be lifted from foreign taxpayers in a mutually beneficial way, i.e. by applying Iraq's UN-controlled oil revenues also to study and training programs abroad and at home which may be offered by any UN member state (a program based on the earlier "Project Plato" www.solami.com/PLATO; for a discussion of the related question of "Who, in international law, really owns Iraq's oil?" see also: BABYLON 2 www.solami.com/babylon2).