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June 16, 2011
Commission on Security and Defense: We support a U.S. withdrawal on schedule
With an emphasis on the obligation to apply the terms of the security agreement
بغداد – الاء عبد الستار BAGHDAD - Alaa Abdel-Sattar
Announced the Security and Defense Committee in the House support for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country end of this year. Chairman of the Committee Hassan Sinead, "It is the supporters of the application of the terms of the security agreement signed with the American side in accordance with the agreed timetables."
Sinead said in a statement the "morning" that "the readiness of Iraqi security forces are subject to performance evaluation and the extent of need for logistical support and their ability to hold the security file," stressing that "blocks all with the application of the terms of the security agreement and withdrawal in accordance with the tables set out."
"Al Sabah" last Monday, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey, held, held talks in the House of Representatives on the file of withdrawal.
And saw the delegate »morning» in the Palais des Congrès, the U.S. ambassador wandering around the corridors of Parliament and the headquarters of the parliamentary committees several, where sources said a representative familiar with: The «Jeffrey urged several deputies, did not disclose their names, to vote or support the extension of U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year.
And re-moves reminiscent of Jeffrey Ryan Crocker, roaming his predecessor in Parliament in 2008 to persuade the House of Representatives voted in favor of the security agreement which identified the tables withdrawal, but the roaming ambassador to the U.S. this time is trying to extend, not to withdraw.
For its part, said MP Maysoon al-Iraqiya that the opinion listed in the question of extending the stay of U.S. forces in Iraq, or withdrawal subject to the calendar commander of the armed forces to detect the readiness of Iraqi security forces and their capabilities and their ability to hold the security file.
She Damluji the "morning": "We asked the Prime Minister to disclose the potential of our troops and their readiness did not receive your reply until now .. and we renew our call to clarify this issue and how to train and rehabilitate the security forces according to the timetables and after the submission of the position shows the performance evaluation will have an Iraqi decision in accordance with the interests of the people. "
And Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the continuation of the plan to build the Iraqi army in 2020, stressing that Iraqi forces have sufficient capacity for maintenance of internal security, stating in a speech at the Council of Ministers meeting the public, which aired on Tuesday evening: "The security issue is concentrated among the internal security and sovereignty, and that these two different tasks, protection of Iraq's need for weapons and the distribution of the military's ability to control the borders, water and atmosphere .. and we are pleased with these trends to protect the export of oil and water."
He revealed the Prime Minister late last month its intention to invite the political blocs to hold a meeting soon to decide on the survival or the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, despite his emphasis on the lack of his concern after the withdrawal of these forces, as announced political blocs agreed to meet Maliki's call for a meeting during the days coming to discuss the issue of the withdrawal or extend the stay of U.S. forces in the country, according to the statements of representatives of these blocks, the "morning." middle of this picture.
In turn, "said Abdel-Hassan Abtan MP for the National Alliance:" The Iraqi government will not be able to discuss the issue of withdrawal or extension of U.S. troops alone, especially that there are signals from the American side a few days ago and the emergence of statements and clear we have heard that Iraq will be a request to the United States to keep this forces."
It is said that the government spokesman and Minister of State Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement quoted by Reuters news agency two days before: that a meeting chaired by President Jalal Talabani has held this week to discuss the U.S. military presence, among other issues, in anticipation of Leon Panetta, a candidate for the office of Secretary of Defense to ask Iraq from Washington «post» keep some troops after the deadline for their withdrawal at the end of 2011, however, a source close to the government's confirmed morning, that this issue would require a decision by all the political blocs.
He Abtan: "The fact that most of the political blocs with U.S. forces to remain, but the positions of these undeclared link their interests with the U.S. side, he says, and therefore would not be able to reject the extension, and this position is declared. So we will see in the coming days that the issue of extension of the topics that will provoke controversy in political circles and has repercussions."
Under the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all the lands and waters and airspace of Iraq no later than December 31 of this year. The United States combat forces had withdrawn under the Convention of the Cities and villages and towns of Iraq on 30 June 2009.
It is said that the Islamic Dawa Party, urged the government and the Parliament not to extend the stay of U.S. forces in Iraq.
He said the party, who heads its Secretariat Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in a statement of the political bureau: "The position fixed from the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from all land and waters and airspace of Iraq as scheduled end of the year, to the readiness of security forces and the armed forces to defend Iraq's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity ".
The statement continued: "We call on our Holy and political forces to unite in the framework of national unity to achieve our noble cause in Iraq to get its independence and sovereignty," calling "on the government to apply all the terms of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and the establishment of balanced relations and equal between the two countries in scientific, economic and cultural and others."
He added the statement that "the Islamic Dawa Party since the day he stepped onto the foreign forces, the land of Iraq, pure, work and all his efforts with the forces of good and at different levels in order to bring these forces and the signing of the agreement to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq to full sovereignty to the Iraqi state."
Said White House spokesman Jay Carney told a news conference last week: that American officials are committed to the agreement with Iraq on the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. forces by the end of this year.
He said Carney said American officials had listened to a request from the Iraqi government to reach a new agreement, "but as from now we intend to fulfill our commitment under the Status of Forces Agreement, which calls for withdrawing all our troops remaining."
He also said that Washington pulled a hundred thousand U.S. troops from Iraq, According to Status of Forces Agreement, there will be no U.S. troops by the end of the year.
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Commission on Security and Defense: We support a U.S. withdrawal on schedule
With an emphasis on the obligation to apply the terms of the security agreement
بغداد – الاء عبد الستار BAGHDAD - Alaa Abdel-Sattar
Announced the Security and Defense Committee in the House support for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country end of this year. Chairman of the Committee Hassan Sinead, "It is the supporters of the application of the terms of the security agreement signed with the American side in accordance with the agreed timetables."
Sinead said in a statement the "morning" that "the readiness of Iraqi security forces are subject to performance evaluation and the extent of need for logistical support and their ability to hold the security file," stressing that "blocks all with the application of the terms of the security agreement and withdrawal in accordance with the tables set out."
"Al Sabah" last Monday, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey, held, held talks in the House of Representatives on the file of withdrawal.
And saw the delegate »morning» in the Palais des Congrès, the U.S. ambassador wandering around the corridors of Parliament and the headquarters of the parliamentary committees several, where sources said a representative familiar with: The «Jeffrey urged several deputies, did not disclose their names, to vote or support the extension of U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year.
And re-moves reminiscent of Jeffrey Ryan Crocker, roaming his predecessor in Parliament in 2008 to persuade the House of Representatives voted in favor of the security agreement which identified the tables withdrawal, but the roaming ambassador to the U.S. this time is trying to extend, not to withdraw.
For its part, said MP Maysoon al-Iraqiya that the opinion listed in the question of extending the stay of U.S. forces in Iraq, or withdrawal subject to the calendar commander of the armed forces to detect the readiness of Iraqi security forces and their capabilities and their ability to hold the security file.
She Damluji the "morning": "We asked the Prime Minister to disclose the potential of our troops and their readiness did not receive your reply until now .. and we renew our call to clarify this issue and how to train and rehabilitate the security forces according to the timetables and after the submission of the position shows the performance evaluation will have an Iraqi decision in accordance with the interests of the people. "
And Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the continuation of the plan to build the Iraqi army in 2020, stressing that Iraqi forces have sufficient capacity for maintenance of internal security, stating in a speech at the Council of Ministers meeting the public, which aired on Tuesday evening: "The security issue is concentrated among the internal security and sovereignty, and that these two different tasks, protection of Iraq's need for weapons and the distribution of the military's ability to control the borders, water and atmosphere .. and we are pleased with these trends to protect the export of oil and water."
He revealed the Prime Minister late last month its intention to invite the political blocs to hold a meeting soon to decide on the survival or the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, despite his emphasis on the lack of his concern after the withdrawal of these forces, as announced political blocs agreed to meet Maliki's call for a meeting during the days coming to discuss the issue of the withdrawal or extend the stay of U.S. forces in the country, according to the statements of representatives of these blocks, the "morning." middle of this picture.
In turn, "said Abdel-Hassan Abtan MP for the National Alliance:" The Iraqi government will not be able to discuss the issue of withdrawal or extension of U.S. troops alone, especially that there are signals from the American side a few days ago and the emergence of statements and clear we have heard that Iraq will be a request to the United States to keep this forces."
It is said that the government spokesman and Minister of State Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement quoted by Reuters news agency two days before: that a meeting chaired by President Jalal Talabani has held this week to discuss the U.S. military presence, among other issues, in anticipation of Leon Panetta, a candidate for the office of Secretary of Defense to ask Iraq from Washington «post» keep some troops after the deadline for their withdrawal at the end of 2011, however, a source close to the government's confirmed morning, that this issue would require a decision by all the political blocs.
He Abtan: "The fact that most of the political blocs with U.S. forces to remain, but the positions of these undeclared link their interests with the U.S. side, he says, and therefore would not be able to reject the extension, and this position is declared. So we will see in the coming days that the issue of extension of the topics that will provoke controversy in political circles and has repercussions."
Under the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all the lands and waters and airspace of Iraq no later than December 31 of this year. The United States combat forces had withdrawn under the Convention of the Cities and villages and towns of Iraq on 30 June 2009.
It is said that the Islamic Dawa Party, urged the government and the Parliament not to extend the stay of U.S. forces in Iraq.
He said the party, who heads its Secretariat Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in a statement of the political bureau: "The position fixed from the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from all land and waters and airspace of Iraq as scheduled end of the year, to the readiness of security forces and the armed forces to defend Iraq's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity ".
The statement continued: "We call on our Holy and political forces to unite in the framework of national unity to achieve our noble cause in Iraq to get its independence and sovereignty," calling "on the government to apply all the terms of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and the establishment of balanced relations and equal between the two countries in scientific, economic and cultural and others."
He added the statement that "the Islamic Dawa Party since the day he stepped onto the foreign forces, the land of Iraq, pure, work and all his efforts with the forces of good and at different levels in order to bring these forces and the signing of the agreement to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq to full sovereignty to the Iraqi state."
Said White House spokesman Jay Carney told a news conference last week: that American officials are committed to the agreement with Iraq on the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. forces by the end of this year.
He said Carney said American officials had listened to a request from the Iraqi government to reach a new agreement, "but as from now we intend to fulfill our commitment under the Status of Forces Agreement, which calls for withdrawing all our troops remaining."
He also said that Washington pulled a hundred thousand U.S. troops from Iraq, According to Status of Forces Agreement, there will be no U.S. troops by the end of the year.
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