Maliki hosts parliament after his return from Washington
03-12-2011 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment - Sumerian News / Baghdad
Announced the decision of the House of Representatives, Mohammed al-Khalidi, Saturday, that the parliament will host Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss the readiness of security forces to take over security after the American withdrawal after his return from Washington, while expected to be hosting the session closed.
Said Mohammed al-Khalidi in an interview with the late "Alsumaria News", "Presidency of the Council of Representatives will be determined during a parliament session to be held in the 11 of December the current date to host Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki," asserting that "the session host will be after the hearings the Mayor of Baghdad Sabir Issawi and the return of al-Maliki from Washington. "
Khalidi added that "the political blocs insisted on hosting the al-Maliki for the readiness of Iraqi security forces to take over security after the American withdrawal from the country," expected to "be hosting a session closed."
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced, on the fourth of last November, he will pay an official visit to the United States in the 12 December next, indicating that this visit comes in the context of deepening friendship, cooperation and common interests between the two countries.
The Chair decided that the House of Representatives decided to host Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki after his return from Japan, which has had in the 19 of November last, and returned us to the 23 of the same month, to discuss the readiness of Iraqi security forces after the American withdrawal, but the hosting was postponed without knowing the reasons.
Under the security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territories and waters and airspace of Iraq not later than 31 December of 2011 the current, having withdrawn U.S. combat forces under the Convention, of the cities and villages and towns in Iraq June 30, 2009.
Iraq has signed and the United States, too, in 2008, the Framework Agreement strategy to support the ministries and agencies of the Iraqi transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, based on reducing the number of reconstruction teams in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable for the rule of law, including development program in which the police and the completion of the coordination, supervision and report to the Fund for Iraq relief and reconstruction.
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