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US House of Representatives recognizes arming the Kurds and Sunnis separately from Baghdad
5/16/15
Twilight News / US House of Representatives on Friday approved a national defense budget for 2016 and one of its clauses that stipulate the need to arm the Kurds and the Sunnis in Iraq directly and separately from the central government in Baghdad.
Budget allocated $ 612 billion to the US Department of Defense, the number of votes won totaled 269 compared to 151 out of 435 dismissive and 12 abstained from voting in the absence of three others, according to TAP Anatolian and seen by Twilight News.
The budget set aside $ 715 million for security aid to Iraq but required to grant 25% of them to the Kurds and the Sunnis in Iraq directly and separately from the Iraqi government.
The US government trap 75% of the budget for the central government even meet certain conditions is to resolve the ethnic and sectarian grievances of minorities, and to expand political participation and implementation of efforts to curtail support for Daash, and the enactment of the founding of the Sunni Iraqi National Guard, and to ensure the representation of minorities in sufficient numbers in Athalomnah institutions, and stop support "Shiite militias" and stop the exploitation of "militias" to the Iraqis, and to ensure the distribution of supplies, equipment and weapons granted by the United States on the security forces, including the Peshmerga Kurdish security forces and tribal Sunni, Iraqi National Guard Sunni, and the release of prisoners from ethnic and religious minorities who were arrested They were detained or charge and try them in a fair and transparent.
It is likely to face US House of Representatives decision to reject the Iraqi government that the Shiites, which previously rejected the draft resolution led.
As Shiite political and religious leaders rejected the draft resolution, which was welcomed by the Kurds and Sunnis.
And as reported by the Turkish Agency, the US President Barack Obama has expressed his rejection of language that has been drafting the paragraph on Balchord, pointing out that it had "caused diplomatic damage" to the country, and stressing that it will use the right of veto if the conclusion reached by the bill the current format.
But it was not immediately clear formula that was objected to by Obama.
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5/16/15
Twilight News / US House of Representatives on Friday approved a national defense budget for 2016 and one of its clauses that stipulate the need to arm the Kurds and the Sunnis in Iraq directly and separately from the central government in Baghdad.
Budget allocated $ 612 billion to the US Department of Defense, the number of votes won totaled 269 compared to 151 out of 435 dismissive and 12 abstained from voting in the absence of three others, according to TAP Anatolian and seen by Twilight News.
The budget set aside $ 715 million for security aid to Iraq but required to grant 25% of them to the Kurds and the Sunnis in Iraq directly and separately from the Iraqi government.
The US government trap 75% of the budget for the central government even meet certain conditions is to resolve the ethnic and sectarian grievances of minorities, and to expand political participation and implementation of efforts to curtail support for Daash, and the enactment of the founding of the Sunni Iraqi National Guard, and to ensure the representation of minorities in sufficient numbers in Athalomnah institutions, and stop support "Shiite militias" and stop the exploitation of "militias" to the Iraqis, and to ensure the distribution of supplies, equipment and weapons granted by the United States on the security forces, including the Peshmerga Kurdish security forces and tribal Sunni, Iraqi National Guard Sunni, and the release of prisoners from ethnic and religious minorities who were arrested They were detained or charge and try them in a fair and transparent.
It is likely to face US House of Representatives decision to reject the Iraqi government that the Shiites, which previously rejected the draft resolution led.
As Shiite political and religious leaders rejected the draft resolution, which was welcomed by the Kurds and Sunnis.
And as reported by the Turkish Agency, the US President Barack Obama has expressed his rejection of language that has been drafting the paragraph on Balchord, pointing out that it had "caused diplomatic damage" to the country, and stressing that it will use the right of veto if the conclusion reached by the bill the current format.
But it was not immediately clear formula that was objected to by Obama.
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