15/12/2011
Political blocs refused to increase the U.S. diplomatic
BAGHDAD - Alaa al-Tai
The government is currently providing legal cover for trainers foreigners without granting them immunity, according to a senior official. This comes at a time rejected the political blocs to increase the U.S. diplomatic presence in Iraq. The Chairman of the Commission on Security and Defence parliamentary Hassan Sinead, in an exclusive statement to "Al Sabah" on file immunity of the foreign coaches: "We believe in the protection and immunity is not .. and the Iraqi government plans to find a legal cover to protect the trainers to be hired to train Iraqi forces within the reassuring atmosphere of the training, but not protect them from the Iraqi judiciary or their maintenance of legal accountability in Iraq."
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said after his talks with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington yesterday: "We discussed the development of U.S. companies in Iraq and the issue of trainers, experts and mechanisms of movement and protection in Iraq, in addition to the one-armed, where Iraq needs more weapons, especially with regard to planes have been asked to buy a meal a second aircraft, F16, and we hope that the request is approved. "In the meantime, called the Iraqi List, to intensify and increase the efforts of the UN role in Iraq rather than raise the proportion of representation American in it. It is said that U.S. President Barack Obama has said during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Washington last Monday, in relation to the preparation of the staff of the U.S. embassy, who described surnamed the Great, "This number reflects the status of work assigned to it in Iraq." For his part, said a member of the Liberal bloc of the Sadrist movement of quitting: "The United States seeks to weaken Iraq and make it subordinate to her economy and the decision by linking economic and political agreements and oil."
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