Najafi calls Biden a formal investigation on the missing billions of dollars - During his current visit to the United States
بغداد ـ الصباح Baghdad morning
Asked House Speaker Osama Najafi, Vice President Joseph Biden, an official investigation, and responsibly on the amounts of up to more than (17.5) billion dollars were spent from the Development Fund for Iraq during the time of the U.S. civil administrator Paul Bremer.
Nujaifi said during a meeting with Biden: The "This amounts disbursed without showing any documents or receipts to justify or prove the type of the point of exchange."
He also stressed that efforts are being made is with instruments financial regulator in both Iraq and the United States to gather information and uncover the circumstances.
For his part, Biden importance of the visit, describing the At the same time President Nujaifi that link basic and important for the future of Iraq and its democratic system, also praised the role and power of the Iraqi parliament under his leadership, which has won the admiration and respect for the Iraqi people. and on demand Najafi, an official investigation on the fate of financial assets, said Biden's full support to this demand, as a matter important for Americans as it is for the Iraqis, stressing the importance of exposing corruption and the corrupt and subjected to legal accountability.
The parties discussed according to a statement issued by the Office Najafi received the "morning," a copy of it, democracy in Iraq, and how to preserve them, and the subject of human rights and freedoms in Iraq, partnership and reconciliation national, and the security situation and violations of the last that took place in Baghdad and other provinces.
During the meeting the head of the House of Representatives that "the future and the fate of the survival of U.S. forces in Iraq depends on the agreement of the political blocs in accordance with governmental request passes through the Council of Ministers, and the remains is approval or not, however, members of the Board House of Representatives.
They discussed during the meeting also, the latest developments in the Arab region. The parties confirmed that the relationship between the two distinct, stressing the importance of development to include the fields of trade, economic, military, scientific, technological and cultural rights.
In the meantime, Search Speaker with Senator John McCain, Vice Chairman of the Committee military services in the Senate, "the internal Iraqi situation and the repercussions of the ongoing changes in the region on the stability of Iraq."
A statement of the Office of Nujaifi for McCain, he noted during the meeting with "the role of the House of Representatives in preserving the democratic system and supporting infrastructure, noting that the two Iraqis and Americans have made great sacrifice to devote this system."
The statement noted that Najafi also met Howard McQueen from the Committee armed forces in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the two sides discussed "the readiness of Iraqi security forces and its willingness and ability to carry out its functions." The two sides also discussed developments in the field and the terrorist operations that took place in several Iraqi cities, according to the statement.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi is on a visit to the United States at the invitation by President of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner.
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