Obama extends Iraq emergency status

20/05/2014   |   12:48 AM
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WASHINGTON, May 19 (KUNA) -- US President Barack Obama on Friday signed an Executive Order to extend the national emergency with respect to Iraq for one year, due to the ongoing and unstable security situation in that country, he said.

The Executive Order was first signed on May 22, 2003 by former President George W. Bush "to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by obstacles to the continued reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and security in the country, and the development of political, administrative, and economic institutions" there.

In his letter to Congress, Obama said the threats and obstacles have not changed, deeming it necessary to extend the national emergency status with respect to Iraq. (end) ys.bs


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Obama extends the state of national emergency related to Iraq for another year

Follow-up / newspaper rectitude - signed by U.S. President Barack Obama, an executive order on the extension of the state of national emergency, which related to Iraq for another year because of the "deteriorating security situation".

Obama said in a letter to the U.S. Congress that the aim of the extension of the state of national emergency related to Iraq is "dealing with threats to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and of the obstacles facing the reconstruction of Iraq and the deployment of peace and security, which in addition to the development of political institutions and administrative and economic Iraqi. "

Obama said "these threats and obstacles did not change what makes it imperative for the administration to extend the state of national emergency on Iraq."

The former U.S. President George W. Bush has signed the first executive order in this regard in the May 22, 2003.


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