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CONGRESS: ARMING PESHMERGA DID NOT AFFECT THE UNITY OF IRAQ
4/1/15
Denied the armed services Committee of US House Mac Thornberry is a project of the national defense act with unity of Iraq.
Thornberry told Sky News in Arabic, that the draft law on national defense ", and PUKmedia received a copy which is being debated in Congress, does not provide for granting the status of" sovereignty for Kurd and Sunni in Iraq, and arming Peshmerga did not affect the unity of Iraq.
Thornberry said that a legislative item allows direct support for Kurd and Sunni, if the Iraqi Government did not meet the criteria of national reconciliation in Iraq.
The law on Iraq is part of the National Defence Act "that determines each year's budget and expenditures of the Pentagon"
He added that the armed services Committee of the House of Representatives in a statement: "to provide assistance to the different groups in Iraq, we had drafted language in a manner consistent with the law of the United States foreign assistance."
"The Committee does not want to make decisions on behalf of Iraqis or rule their country, for that sees related to them certainly."
The Act, approved Thursday in the armed services Committee of US House of representatives on the allocation of $ 715 million in the budget for the Department of Defense to support Iraqi forces facing the Organization in the country, and allocating 25 per cent of such assistance to tribal forces and Peshmerga forces.
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4/1/15
Denied the armed services Committee of US House Mac Thornberry is a project of the national defense act with unity of Iraq.
Thornberry told Sky News in Arabic, that the draft law on national defense ", and PUKmedia received a copy which is being debated in Congress, does not provide for granting the status of" sovereignty for Kurd and Sunni in Iraq, and arming Peshmerga did not affect the unity of Iraq.
Thornberry said that a legislative item allows direct support for Kurd and Sunni, if the Iraqi Government did not meet the criteria of national reconciliation in Iraq.
The law on Iraq is part of the National Defence Act "that determines each year's budget and expenditures of the Pentagon"
He added that the armed services Committee of the House of Representatives in a statement: "to provide assistance to the different groups in Iraq, we had drafted language in a manner consistent with the law of the United States foreign assistance."
"The Committee does not want to make decisions on behalf of Iraqis or rule their country, for that sees related to them certainly."
The Act, approved Thursday in the armed services Committee of US House of representatives on the allocation of $ 715 million in the budget for the Department of Defense to support Iraqi forces facing the Organization in the country, and allocating 25 per cent of such assistance to tribal forces and Peshmerga forces.
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