July 10, 2011Parliamentary Security Committee: No new agreement with Washington
A day after Mullen talks to sign
بغداد – شيماء رشيد BAGHDAD - The Rashid Shaimaa
Denied the Commission on Security and Defense Council of Representatives and the existence of any new security agreement between Iraq and the United States. A member of the Committee of quitting: "There is no truth to reports in the media, disclosed that negotiations are underway to keep U.S. troops."
He Zamili "morning", "The government did not announce the existence of any new agreement signed between the two sides on the survival of the military, did not put on the parliament nor the political blocs such a thing."
The commander of Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen said that the United States and Iraq were currently negotiations on a security agreement possible new states to keep U.S. troops in the country after the maturity date December 31 set for the withdrawal, noting that "negotiations were under way which is difficult," pointing at the same time The talks addressed to the size of the military unit the U.S. is likely to remain in the country, as well as to the capacity Fqrlha Iraqi forces.
He Zamili: "The Single Convention is signed for the withdrawal of military forces, the end of this year," pointing out that "there are frequent visits to some U.S. officials including Michael Mullen, to pressure the government to the survival of some of the military forces in Iraq and that a breach of the agreement signed on the pretext that there is a weakness in the intelligence effort of Iraq, and it pays them because they are obliged to develop this side and supplement the intelligence agencies with all the information because they have advanced system."
For his part, Kurdistan Alliance MP Shawn Mohammed Taha, that "there is no information about the existence of a new agreement, as announced by the Chief of Staff of the U.S. military and all that has been handed down in the media is incorrect."
Taha said: "The survival or exit of military forces the U.S. is the Iraqi government and it needs a political consensus to extend or get out the troops, despite the presence of the urging by the U.S. side on this subject, but this question of the Iraqis alone."
Increased Taha "We need experts and technicians in the military side to determine the ability of Iraqi military forces to maintain security and border control and non-readiness and is the mechanism to enact laws that help to raise their resources and must find out the reasons and where the bugs will then be a report and decision-making."
Deputies said in their statements, the "morning" last week, to the importance that there be a political position, unified by the political blocs in this regard because the issue affects the interests of Iraq.
The president of security and defense committee in Parliament MP Hassan Sinead, a week before last, there is a strong will to Iraq in the implementation of the terms of the U.S. withdrawal, according to schedules set out, saying, "I informed the U.S. ambassador and the commander of U.S. forces as there is no need for the presence of combat troops in Iraq after the end of the year the current."
In turn, described the MP for the coalition of state law Mohammed Saadoun Chihod leaders told the Americans about the possibility of the survival of part of their forces in Iraq Informatics.
He said in a press statement: "The security agreement does not include any clause allowing the extension of survival in whole or in part of U.S. forces in the country."
He Chihod "Any stay of U.S. forces in the country will not have a presence on the ground that there were not concluded a new agreement between the Iraqi government and occupation forces approved by Parliament."
He continued: "There are negotiations underway between the Iraqi and U.S. governments to arrange the action to allow U.S. troops to remain not a combat training," explaining that the agreement does not include the current to keep combat troops, but at the request of the Iraqi government.
MP also called for the Iraqi bloc white high Nassif government and the Iraqi people "not to extend the security agreement or an alternative agreement with the United States."
She said in a statement yesterday: "the executive and legislative review and assess the presence and U.S. performance in Iraq, both internal and external," adding that "at the domestic level we see that the Americans left Iraq weak, divided along sectarian lines lacks security institution strong enough, as well as the problems facing the political process now."
She added that "at the external level we see that the U.S. administration has left Iraq under Chapter VII, and it was possible to have a wider role in solving this problem suffered by Iraq, many for several years."
It continued: "The American policy is wrong to keep Iraq weak made the regional states seeking to take their share of the cake made by them to Washington on a silver platter, Vttault these countries on the territory of Iraq and its territorial waters."
The MP for the Iraqi List, Nahida Daini has announced support for the mass for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year.
Daini said in a statement quoted by news agency Nina: "Iraq does not contemplate better than the Americans, that their presence as things have got worse and there were interventions by countries affairs of Iraq."
Dani said that "these troops have the goal in Iraq and we exit with the end of this year."
It expected that the use of U.S. forces to "other methods to stay in Iraq in the absence of the extension and to protect the embassy, training and other things."
