11/29/2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add comments - Sumerian News / Baghdad said Iraqi government spokesman on Tuesday that Iraq is currently considering an agreement with NATO aims to train Iraqi forces, without providing for immunity for NATO soldiers or live up to the level of "air cover", as said U.S. military spokesman Major General Jeffrey Buchanan that the Iraqi government is seeking to determine its relationship with NATO allies. Ali al-Dabbagh, the intervention of a television channel "Iraq," the semi-official, that "the House of Representatives completed the first reading agreement with NATO and awaiting its second reading for approval, "pointing out that they" Convention on the limited training does not live up to that Agtina NATO air. " Dabbagh said that "the Convention is to train Iraqi forces," stressing that "there will be no immunity" for the soldiers of the alliance. He "Iraq wants to diversify its need of training with NATO (NATO) and the United States and other countries, but the conditions of Iraq." In a related development, said U.S. military spokesman Major General Jeffrey Buchanan said in a statement that "Iraq is working to put the finishing touches on the training agreement NATO, "noting that it" may include some 150 trainers. " He added that "the Iraqi government is seeking to determine its relationship to NATO." coincides talk about the agreement between Iraq and NATO after the failure of negotiations, US-Iraqi to keep the trained Americans because of Baghdad's refusal to grant U.S. soldiers immunity, while complete U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, scheduled to be completed in full by the end of the year 2011 under a security agreement signed between the two countries. Under the security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territory and waters and airspace of Iraq no later not later than 31 December of 2011 the current, having withdrawn U.S. combat forces under the Convention of the cities, villages and towns of Iraq June 30, 2009. The Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of Southern Command, NATO announced the end of last year, 2010, said the alliance shows open about continuing his duties until after the full withdrawal of U.S. forces. The NATO who was not involved in the Iraq war because of opposition from France and Germany, began his duties in Iraq in 2004 to train security forces at the request of the government in Baghdad, and has undergone about 9 thousand officers in the Federal Police for training the gendarmerie Italian participant in the NATO forces since October 2007, also held the Atlantic last year, new courses for the training of police forces to protect oil installations.
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