11/29/2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - Alsumaria News / Baghdad,
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, Tuesday, in Baghdad on a surprise visit comes just weeks before the U.S. withdrawal from the country. was greeted Biden at Baghdad International Airport U.S. Ambassador James Jeffrey and the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Lloyd Austin and a group of American diplomats. The official said the White House, "Biden visits Iraq to participate in the meetings of the Coordinating Committee U.S. Supreme Iraqi, and held meetings with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani and parliament speaker Osama Najafi and politicians, other Iraqis. " The U.S. official, that "Biden will attend and deliver a speech at a ceremony organized in order to recall the sacrifice and achievements of American soldiers and Iraqis." The official that "the administration of President Barack Obama has maintained its promises in Iraq," noting that "acts of violence during the two years two are at the lowest level since 2003. " and was scheduled to visit that Vice President Joe Biden, the capital of Baghdad on an unannounced visit, the fifth of this November, but the visit was postponed for unknown reasons. The Biden's visit to Iraq , at a time of political crisis the country, especially among the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi and the State of Law coalition headed by Nuri al-Maliki, in addition to security events and is most notably the bombing, on Monday (11.28.2011), near the parliament building inside the Green Zone central Baghdad, killing one person and wounding four others, including a spokesman for the Kurdistan Alliance, a pro good. and visited the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Iraq, last January, and discussed with Iraqi officials, a number of issues, including political developments in Iraq and the process of U.S. withdrawal. The U.S. President Barak Obama in the 21 last October that his country's troops in Iraqi territory would be in the United States during the holidays, stressing that Washington will support Iraq in all fields, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on the need to begin a new phase of strategic relations after the withdrawal U.S. from Iraq on schedule end of the year 2011. Under the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territories and waters and airspace of Iraq not later than 31 December of 2011 the current, after withdrew U.S. combat forces under the Convention, cities, villages and towns of Iraq June 30, 2009.
Iraq has signed and the United States, too, 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 reducing the number of reconstruction teams in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable rule of law, including the police development program and the completion of the coordination and supervision and the report of the Fund for Iraq relief and reconstruction.
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