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NATO regrets for his departure: We hope immunity
On: Sun 12/18/2011 10:17
Baghdad / term
ended NATO officially on Saturday, his mission in Iraq, after the failure to reach agreement on granting NATO soldiers legal immunity. The commander of the NATO mission in Iraq, the U.S. team Robert Kaslen that NATO was planning to sign an agreement with the Iraqi government does not require parliamentary approval, but he was later to emphasize that there is a need for the approval of the Council of Representatives.
She had failed similar negotiations between Baghdad and Washington to keep U.S. soldiers in Iraq training mission will continue until after the withdrawal date is the end of 2011, after the insistence of the U.S. side to the parliament approved the agreement.
and handed U.S. troops Iraq on Friday last base was operated in the country, to complete the process of withdrawal destruction in the coming days.
The Admiral James Stavridis is the Supreme Commander of coalition forces in Europe in a letter addressed to Kaslen and read during the closing ceremony of the NATO mission in Baghdad today, "there were hopes to complete the task until after 2011, but we Snnhiaa at a time early date. "
he said, such as age, told reporters after the ceremony, said that NATO was willing to sign an agreement with the executive power in Iraq, "but the lawyers who have seen it stated that the issue of immunity should be subject to a vote in Parliament."
The Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced Monday the end of the NATO training in Iraq before the December 31, when its mandate expired, after Iraq refused to grant immunity to the elements of the alliance.
and the current agreement between NATO and the Iraqi government states be held accountable military and trainers in the NATO military court of NATO or its Member States and not to the judiciary Iraqi military.
and refused to Baghdad to extend this immunity after December 31 and the withdrawal of the last American soldiers.
The alliance, which was not involved in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 because of opposition from countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, began the following year a training mission for Iraqi security forces at the request of the authorities in Baghdad.
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