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Iraq "regrets" the decision to withdraw the NATO training mission for non-members on immunity
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Sunday, 11 k 1 2011 17:26 GMT
Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh Al-Fayad
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
The Iraqi government on Sunday, expressed regret over the decision to withdraw the NATO training mission in Iraq, after Baghdad refused to grant the immunity of its members.
The Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh Al-Fayad, told the French press, "We regret that NATO has recommended the withdrawal of his mission from Iraq three days before, because the immunity outside the validity of the Iraqi government," adding, "We respect this decision, and I was hoping that there will be cooperation with NATO within the frameworks the other, and not only through its mission in Iraq, as we hope to keep this mission. "
The Fayad, on board the plane carrying Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the U.S. capital of Washington, "We had a large margin of negotiation about the possibility of survival beyond the end of the NATO mission by the end of the year 2011, but the alliance last surprised us with this decision."
The Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, announced the end of November, that Iraq is currently considering an agreement with NATO aims to train Iraqi forces without providing for immunity for NATO soldiers.
Dabbagh said that "the House of Representatives completed a first reading agreement with NATO and awaiting its second reading for approval, may mean that the parliament did not approve the second reading, or that such negotiations have failed to vote on it.
It was NATO, noted that the Iraqi Prime Minister has asked NATO to extend its mission in Iraq until the end of the year 2013, NATO has agreed in principle.
Previously, Army Chief of Staff Babacar Zebari that said, the ninth of May, 2011, that the Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council and the Council of Ministers a plan started in 2008 and implemented through several stages until 2020, then, Iraq will have an army be able to protect its borders, air, sea and land of the country, adding that the Iraqi army is ready now at the domestic level to counter terrorism, but it does not have the ability to protect Iraq's airspace, borders and is based on the Americans.
The Ministry of Interior, on July 17, 2011, that the report confirms the readiness of its forces to take over security after the American withdrawal end of the year, and the commander of the armed forces, Nouri al-Maliki briefed on these reports as the Minister of the Interior acting and has ongoing meetings with their leaders, as pointed to the lack need for the presence of U.S. forces, but may need to exercise only.
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 provinces, as well as providing important sustainable for the 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.
Under the security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington in late November of 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territories and waters and airspace of Iraq not later than 31 December of this year, it had withdrawn U.S. combat forces under the Convention of the cities and villages and towns of Iraq on 30 June 2009.
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Editor: SA | MN
Sunday, 11 k 1 2011 17:26 GMT
Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh Al-Fayad
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
The Iraqi government on Sunday, expressed regret over the decision to withdraw the NATO training mission in Iraq, after Baghdad refused to grant the immunity of its members.
The Iraqi National Security Adviser Faleh Al-Fayad, told the French press, "We regret that NATO has recommended the withdrawal of his mission from Iraq three days before, because the immunity outside the validity of the Iraqi government," adding, "We respect this decision, and I was hoping that there will be cooperation with NATO within the frameworks the other, and not only through its mission in Iraq, as we hope to keep this mission. "
The Fayad, on board the plane carrying Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the U.S. capital of Washington, "We had a large margin of negotiation about the possibility of survival beyond the end of the NATO mission by the end of the year 2011, but the alliance last surprised us with this decision."
The Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, announced the end of November, that Iraq is currently considering an agreement with NATO aims to train Iraqi forces without providing for immunity for NATO soldiers.
Dabbagh said that "the House of Representatives completed a first reading agreement with NATO and awaiting its second reading for approval, may mean that the parliament did not approve the second reading, or that such negotiations have failed to vote on it.
It was NATO, noted that the Iraqi Prime Minister has asked NATO to extend its mission in Iraq until the end of the year 2013, NATO has agreed in principle.
Previously, Army Chief of Staff Babacar Zebari that said, the ninth of May, 2011, that the Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council and the Council of Ministers a plan started in 2008 and implemented through several stages until 2020, then, Iraq will have an army be able to protect its borders, air, sea and land of the country, adding that the Iraqi army is ready now at the domestic level to counter terrorism, but it does not have the ability to protect Iraq's airspace, borders and is based on the Americans.
The Ministry of Interior, on July 17, 2011, that the report confirms the readiness of its forces to take over security after the American withdrawal end of the year, and the commander of the armed forces, Nouri al-Maliki briefed on these reports as the Minister of the Interior acting and has ongoing meetings with their leaders, as pointed to the lack need for the presence of U.S. forces, but may need to exercise only.
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 provinces, as well as providing important sustainable for the 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.
Under the security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington in late November of 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territories and waters and airspace of Iraq not later than 31 December of this year, it had withdrawn U.S. combat forces under the Convention of the cities and villages and towns of Iraq on 30 June 2009.
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