Parliamentary Committee for the Defense: NATO does not deny the use of our need to Washington
On: Sat 3/12/2011 9:07
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dispersed to the Commission on Security and Defence parliamentary between contracting with NATO in the training of security forces, and the use of trainers American, considering that the latter is the reality of the event because the weapons coming into the country, most of them, American-made.
A Committee member Abbas al-Bayati said in a statement reporter (range) in the House,
The agreements with NATO does not eliminate the counterpart with the U.S. side in bringing in a number of trainers.
Al-Bayati said: There are two paths in the training of Iraqi forces; first with NATO and the second with the U.S. side, indicating that Iraq is obliged with the U.S. side, more than any other hand, the fact that weapons of newly imported 80% of them from the origins of American.
He al-Bayati, "after the completion of the first reading of the initiative to cooperate with NATO blocs agreed on the matter," adding, "But we are in the normalization and the application as stipulated in the agreement with the U.S. side."
He pointed out that the training will be comprehensive in all areas of military, intelligence, and to benefit from the experiences of U.S. military and NATO, as required by the need for Iraq in the coming period after the departure of U.S. forces. "
On another subject said al-Bayati, that the bombing of a garage parliament will not affect the operation of the U.S. withdrawal as announced some blocks fears about, He said that the U.S. withdrawal is a national issue related to the promotion of sovereignty, stressing at the same time that these violations will remain for a longer period, especially after the American withdrawal.
He continued: There is more than one country is preparing to destabilize security in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops citing the countries of the United States has occupied the former such as France, Italy and Turkey He said, "When the U.S. withdrew from these countries is the security situation dire for some time."
As both the Commission on Security and Defense Council of the Iraqi parliament, said on Friday its start up the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Bayati said, "it was the formation of a committee consisting of 5 members watching the process of assuming positions of U.S. troops. "
He pointed out that "the Commission headed by Hassan Sinead, will brief on the details of a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and will present its recommendations to the Iraqi government on bridging the gap of U.S. forces after the withdrawal and will provide its final report, with the end date of a U.S. withdrawal to the Council of Representatives."
The percentage of U.S. withdrawal exceeded more than 95% so far, it is expected that U.S. troops withdraw permanently from Iraq the end of the year, according to the agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington in 2008.
and revealed the U.S. military last year for possession of Iraq's Air Force 115 aircraft of different uses, including combat, while the F16 planes entering the offensive advanced service in the Iraqi Air Force in 2013, according to statements made by Iraqi officials.
and Iraq contracted with the United States for the purchase of aircraft deal of 36 attack aircraft developed the F16 class offensive.
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