(AINA) -- The Liberal Party of Australia, NSW division, issued a statement condemning the bombing of churches in Iraq, and calling for a Christian enclave.

The Young Liberal Movement of NSW is the most influential youth political organisation in Australia, and is the youth wing of the centre-right conservative Australian Liberal Party, led by the current Prime Minister of Australia, The Hon. John Howard MP. On Saturday the 27th of November the state council, a meeting of branches from the state of NSW gather to discuss policy, issued a policy motion made by the Smithfield branch, which has many Assyrian members and is located near Fairfield, which has the largest concentration of Assyrians in Australia.

The Statement states:

The Liberal Party of Australia, NSW Division condemn the hideous and unjustifiable attacks on the Assyrian and Armenian Christian churches in Baghdad and Mosul that killed 15 worshipers and injured another 65. These attacks are a crime not only against Iraqi Christians but all Iraqis who seek a free and democratic Iraq. The Liberal Party of Australia, NSW Division further deems that the formation of a Christian enclave in the north is necessary to safeguard the country's Christian minority, who makeup 3% of the total population.

The motion was passed unanimously by over 100 delegates in the presence of Federal members of Parliament and is now a part of the official policy of the NSW Young Liberals.