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The start of negotiations on keeping American trainers after 2011
06/08/2011
Source «morning»: four files for the talks will focus
Baghdad morning
I learned the "morning" of a senior American source of this week will witness the launch of negotiations on the possibility of keeping the American forces for training and weaponry.
The source said in a telephone interview from Washington: "The United States want to keep about 20 thousand, but U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta did not expect the approval of the Iraqis on this issue."
He added that negotiations between Baghdad and Washington will discuss among other files are: "the number and type of training the trainers and the places where training will be, in addition to the size and type of armament." The Deputy Prime Minister Ruz Nuri Shawis after a meeting of the blocks last Tuesday, an agreement the leaders to «mandated the government to begin talks with the American side is limited to training issues under the strategic framework agreement to Iraq's need for training .. and it should be any relationship is determined in all its aspects to promote the full sovereignty Iraq, where political leaders will be watching the talks to consider any final agreement with the American side, that is these talks in a spirit of friendship and cooperation ».
Informed political source "morning" recently, that "there are political orientation of the political blocs to keep power limited offer air support and the training of Iraqi forces to arms for a period not exceeding two years," noting that "the power that may remain will not be licensed to conduct military operations or bombing air, but in full coordination with Iraqi authorities and are subject to Iraqi laws outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, where it will be based. "
It is said that President Jalal Talabani received yesterday the first U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey, the general commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Lloyd Austin. During the meeting they discussed the necessary mechanisms to strengthen the frameworks for constructive cooperation and relations dynamic between the two sides. In the meantime, denied a spokesman for the Sadrist movement Salah al-Obeidi, was quoted by the news that the approval of the Sadrist movement to keep the number of Americans trained in Iraq after the end of the period of time set by the security agreement.
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