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Maliki: U.S. withdrawal no longer an actual state secret deals
Group: Security and Politics
Created on Saturday, 03 March / March 2012 07:20
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Friday, that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country's real and not a formality, pointing out that Iraq is no longer a state secret deals.
He said Nuri al-Maliki in an interview with the newspaper "Okaz" Saudi Arabia, that "the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is real 100%, it can be for any person to walk around from the north of Iraq to the south, then saw the American soldiers and one shall control or have a camp also subject to tell the world that the withdrawal of those forces of the country formality. "
Maliki said that "Iraq is no longer held state secret deals and behind the scenes and under the table, but speaks in public," noting that "Alomarkiyan asked to provide immunity for the one who keeps them as trainers in Iraq, but we refused by the House of Representatives."
Maliki confirmed that "those remaining troops are trained to arms, the fact that Iraq has the procurement of weapons," pointing out that "These trainers are located in all countries of the world, under contracts and no immunity for a period of six months to a year."
The United States ended official U.S. presence in Iraq in December of 2011, under the agreement signed between the two countries in 2008, after nine years of its military invasion in 2003, and the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein, a decision of the former U.S. President George W. Bush.
Iraq has signed and the United States in 2008 the Strategic Framework Agreement to support the ministries and agencies of Iraq in the transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, based on reducing the number of PRTs in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable rule of law and police development program and the completion of the coordination and supervision and the report of the Fund for Iraq relief and reconstruction.
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