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United States will not reduce the number of staff of its embassy in Baghdad
On: Friday 2/10/2012 7:53
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U.S. government has denied press reports that spoke of Washington sought to reduce the number of staff at its embassy in Baghdad in half, just two months after the withdrawal of the last of its troops from Iraq. Said Thomas Naidz Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources in a report contrary to some news reports, we do not reduce our operations by 50%.
He stressed that the Administration hoped to be able during the next few months to reduce the size of the U.S. presence in Iraq by reducing the reliance on contractors, considering that we have towards the taxpayers, while did not specify a certain percentage of the reduction is expected.
explained Naidz that the approved plan includes a shift towards reliance on local contractors in the area of supply security and food, and pointed out that this would be less expensive, and will make the embassy a part of the community even more.
It is noteworthy that most of the staff at the Embassy of Washington, in Baghdad are not diplomats but security contractors.
and the United States had hoped to strengthen its diplomatic efforts Following the withdrawal of its military forces, but the interaction between two thousand diplomatic and ordinary Iraqis remained in the range is limited by security considerations.
For its part, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State Victoria Nuland, told reporters that the ministry does not consider reducing the number of diplomats by half, but said that officials are looking at How to reduce the number of staff of the Embassy of their country in Iraq.
She added that the process of evaluating a number of contractors wanted has already begun, but it did not specify the number after.
It is noteworthy that the U.S. Embassy in Iraq is the largest in the world and was built at a cost of $ 750 million.
The New York Times reported that officials - not detected them - in Baghdad and Washington said it was being reviewed by half the annual cost of the diplomatic mission in Iraq and the estimated six billion dollars and reduce the number of employees is estimated at around 16 thousand, mostly contractors
to, the Committee emphasized the security and defense parliamentary to the United States reducing its embassy in Iraq, believes a balance in the nature of relations between Iraq and America.
A member of the Security and Defense Committee head of the Virtue Ammar Tohme's / Baghdadiya News / "The reduction of Washington's embassies in Iraq believes in balance in the nature of relations between the two countries and to achieve the base ideals in dealing norms and diplomatic relations. "
and Tohme "contract is a base ideal because it is the context of the standard governing the external relations between states and regulates the implementation of Activity embassies."
The member of the Commission on Security and defense head of the Virtue parliamentary "The visas for workers in the U.S. Embassy will be determined by which function and the nature of work and important factor and limit the number and is supposed to start the reduction by the end of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
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