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The start of a session of Congress scheduled to vote on a resolution in which arming the Peshmerga and the Sunni tribes
4.2015 5:21 a.m.
The start of a session of Congress scheduled to vote on a resolution in which arming the Peshmerga and the Sunni tribes
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US House of Representatives session began [Congress] scheduled to vote on a resolution in which the financing arm of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Sunni tribes in Iraq's isolation from the federal government in Baghdad.
The session will include a vote of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Congress on the draft resolution provides for the provision of military aid worth $ 715 million to the Iraqi army and other forces associated with the Iraqi government, to go to 25 per cent of them to the Peshmerga, and Sunni tribes.
The draft resolution refers to the possibility of providing the Peshmerga and the Sunni tribal aid directly if the Iraqi government has not fulfilled its obligations under the draft resolution.
The draft law would impose conditions on Baghdad in exchange for this assistance, most notably that the Iraqi government give minorities is Shiite role in the leadership of the country within three months after the adoption of the law and put an end to Baghdad to support the militias, otherwise, it will freeze 75 percent of aid to Baghdad, and send over 60 percent of them directly to the Kurds and Sunnis.
The draft resolution has raised an uproar in political circles in Iraq, seen as a parliamentary forces issued a condemnation of data, that the draft resolution violates Iraqi sovereignty, and ignores the will of the Iraqi people.
As dismay of government where several Deputy Prime Minister Bahaa al-Araji, an attempt of the United States "to create chaos in Iraq," take it with MPs from different political blocks this step "malignant project to divide Iraq."
In response to the Iraqi political attitudes, the US Embassy in Baghdad issued a statement Wednesday, which stressed that the United States policy towards Iraq has not changed, and said that the US administration supports and supports "a united Iraq."
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4.2015 5:21 a.m.
The start of a session of Congress scheduled to vote on a resolution in which arming the Peshmerga and the Sunni tribes
Brother - Follow-up
US House of Representatives session began [Congress] scheduled to vote on a resolution in which the financing arm of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Sunni tribes in Iraq's isolation from the federal government in Baghdad.
The session will include a vote of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Congress on the draft resolution provides for the provision of military aid worth $ 715 million to the Iraqi army and other forces associated with the Iraqi government, to go to 25 per cent of them to the Peshmerga, and Sunni tribes.
The draft resolution refers to the possibility of providing the Peshmerga and the Sunni tribal aid directly if the Iraqi government has not fulfilled its obligations under the draft resolution.
The draft law would impose conditions on Baghdad in exchange for this assistance, most notably that the Iraqi government give minorities is Shiite role in the leadership of the country within three months after the adoption of the law and put an end to Baghdad to support the militias, otherwise, it will freeze 75 percent of aid to Baghdad, and send over 60 percent of them directly to the Kurds and Sunnis.
The draft resolution has raised an uproar in political circles in Iraq, seen as a parliamentary forces issued a condemnation of data, that the draft resolution violates Iraqi sovereignty, and ignores the will of the Iraqi people.
As dismay of government where several Deputy Prime Minister Bahaa al-Araji, an attempt of the United States "to create chaos in Iraq," take it with MPs from different political blocks this step "malignant project to divide Iraq."
In response to the Iraqi political attitudes, the US Embassy in Baghdad issued a statement Wednesday, which stressed that the United States policy towards Iraq has not changed, and said that the US administration supports and supports "a united Iraq."
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