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Washington plans to reduce the number of its embassy in Baghdad, 16-thousand workers!!
02.09.2012 0:00
BAGHDAD / Future of Iraq
announced that the U.S. administration announced a plan to reduce the number of staff at its embassy in Baghdad, while confirming the presence of 16 thousand currently between diplomats and retirees. said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State Victoria Nuland in a press statement, "The U.S. government plans to reduce the size of its embassy in Iraq," stressing that "This decision aims to reduce the total cost of the mission, which includes about 2000 diplomat and 14 thousand foreign contractor working in all fields to provide security to the Department of kitchens." She added that "There are no plans to reduce the number of diplomats by half," noting that "can not predict the size of the cut is likely in the number of contractors so far." She Noland, "we are exploring how we can rationalize the size of our embassy in Iraq and in particular how we can achieve more for those mission through the use of local staff rather than having to rely on foreigners as we were by the contractors who employed the cost is too high. "
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