Al-Kazemi visits the United States

Al-Kazemi visits the United States

Policy  ,   2021/04/22 15:54  




BAGHDAD , Iraq today:

A member of the Future Bloc in the House of Representatives, Sarkawt Shams al- Din, on Thursday (April 22, 2021) for a planned visit by Prime Minister Mustafa Kazemi to the United States in July next

, said Shams al- Din said in a statement that " the United States in the process of writing The strategy for the Middle East, including Iraq, next month. "

He pointed out that "the Iraqi prime minister will visit Washington next July to discuss relations, especially the withdrawal of American forces, and what the American side requires to provide to Iraq after this stage and how relations will be with it," noting that "he will be informed of what this strategy will contain with regard to Iraq."

He added, "Al-Kazemi was the first prime minister in the Middle East that US President Joe Biden called after he won the elections and became president of the United States."

"The Iraqi-American dialogue focused on shifting the tasks of the American army and the coalition forces in general from combat to training, in addition to the responsibility of the camps in which these forces are present to the Iraqi side after completing the task of training them to maintain their security and protect the foreign forces present in them, so that the camp will be A pure Iraqi with few American trainers. "

Shams al-Din added, "Within the dialogue, the Iraqi side pledged to protect the American forces before the complete withdrawal and diplomatic missions, and to confront any attack on them, whether by missiles, explosive devices or others, and foreign forces cannot intervene or take any step towards these attacks," stressing that " This mission will test the ability of the Iraqi army to maintain the security and sovereignty of the country. "

He explained that "the dialogue also focused on the issues of investment and the economy, as American companies began to work in the southern governorates in the field of oil and gas and others, after an interruption of years."

He hinted that "there were different points of view between the federal government and the Kurdistan region during the strategic dialogue, as the latter requested that the American forces remain while the first party was committed to the presence of those forces for a specific period, while the American side had a view that its forces did not remain forever. The protection of Iraq must be handed over to the elements of the Iraqi army and their readiness during the next stage to confront armed groups outside the law that have negatively affected security and which may perpetuate the stay of US forces in the country




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