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Washington declares that Iraq has agreed to extend the survival of its troops beyond the end of 2011
Editor: NK Friday, 19 August 2011 17:35 GMT
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
*****announced the U.S. Department of Defense, Friday, that Iraq had agreed to the extension to the survival of U.S. forces is combat in Iraq beyond the end of the year 2011, while she noted that they began to discuss how the presence of its troops after confirmation of the Iraqi decision.****** and the defense minister said the new U.S. Leon Panetta said in a statement made at his office in the Pentagon on Friday, "and finally, Iraq agreed to the extension to the survival of non-combat troops beyond the end of 2011," asserting that "the Pentagon has begun studying how the presence of troops that Iraq agreed to its survival." said Panetta that "The U.S. Defense Department and by discussing the presence of non-combat troops in Iraq, will be committed to fulfilling their pledges to withdraw all combat troops out of before the end of this year, according to the plan positioning," according to the security agreement between Iraq and the United States. The announcement comes after months of political debate in Iraq extension or no extension of U.S. forces until after the end of the year 2011 and that seems to be resolved at a meeting of the political blocs, hosted by Talabani in the second week of August the current and came out the blocks from the agreement on the mandate of the government talks to the survival of trained Americans until after the end of the year 2011. In the case reached the Iraqi government to agree on the survival of American forces for training purposes with the U.S. side, they will need parliament's approval on this, which would likely not object to its members with the exception of the Sadrists who announced his categorical rejection of any U.S. presence after the end of the year, whether civilian or Delbomasea or a military or a consultant. Iraq has signed and the United States, in 2008, the Framework Agreement strategy to support the ministries and agencies of the Iraqi transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, based on the Strategic Framework Agreement and to reduce the number of reconstruction teams in the governorates, as well as provide an important sustainable rule of law, including police development program and the completion of the coordination and supervision and the report of the Fund of Iraq relief and reconstruction. Under the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington on the end of November of 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territory and waters and airspace Iraq no later than 31 December of the current year 2011, it had withdrawn U.S. combat forces under the Convention of the cities, villages and towns in Iraq June 30, 2009.
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