Kurdistan's parliament hails the decision of arming the Peshmerga in isolation from Baghdad
5/17/2015
Baghdad praised the Iraqi Kurdistan parliament on Saturday, the US House of Representatives resolution on arming the Peshmerga forces directly, without reference to the Iraqi government. He said Parliament in a press statement, seen by the "eye of Iraq News," "We in the Kurdistan Parliament and Bassam people Kordstn applaud the US House of Representatives resolution and appreciate the decision aloft because giving weapons and ammunition to the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan directly will have an impact for the resolution and the elimination of terrorist threats Daash security and stability Kurdistan, Iraq and the whole region of the world. "
He said the parliament that "about a year and a Peshmerga forces and its potential limited since fighting on the battlefield became not only to protect the people of Kurdistan and its gains, but was able to make the cities and villages of Kurdistan, a place to house displaced Iraqis Psonth and Shiites and Christians Network and Yazidis, who fled from killing Daash bulwark".
US House of Representatives on Friday approved the national defense budget for 2016, which provides one paragraph on the need to arm the Kurds and the Sunnis in Iraq directly and separately from the central government in Baghdad.
The budget allocated $ 612 billion US Department of Defense, the number of votes won totaled 269 compared to 151 out of 435 dismissive and 12 abstained from voting.
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. Ended 9
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5/17/2015
Baghdad praised the Iraqi Kurdistan parliament on Saturday, the US House of Representatives resolution on arming the Peshmerga forces directly, without reference to the Iraqi government. He said Parliament in a press statement, seen by the "eye of Iraq News," "We in the Kurdistan Parliament and Bassam people Kordstn applaud the US House of Representatives resolution and appreciate the decision aloft because giving weapons and ammunition to the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan directly will have an impact for the resolution and the elimination of terrorist threats Daash security and stability Kurdistan, Iraq and the whole region of the world. "
He said the parliament that "about a year and a Peshmerga forces and its potential limited since fighting on the battlefield became not only to protect the people of Kurdistan and its gains, but was able to make the cities and villages of Kurdistan, a place to house displaced Iraqis Psonth and Shiites and Christians Network and Yazidis, who fled from killing Daash bulwark".
US House of Representatives on Friday approved the national defense budget for 2016, which provides one paragraph on the need to arm the Kurds and the Sunnis in Iraq directly and separately from the central government in Baghdad.
The budget allocated $ 612 billion US Department of Defense, the number of votes won totaled 269 compared to 151 out of 435 dismissive and 12 abstained from voting.
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. Ended 9
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