Outlook deteriorating relations with Washington against the backdrop of the Russian deal
Outlook deteriorating relations with Washington against the backdrop of the Russian deal
22/10/2012 (19:14 pm)
BAGHDAD / star Khuzaie
Expect a member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee Aziz Ugaili deterioration of relations between the United States and Iraq, on the back of the arms deal which the government wants to contract with the Russian side. Assignor reason to upset America went government to the Russians in order to arm the Iraqi forces, violating the security agreement signed with the U.S. government and the judge to be reinforcing American.
Ugaili added that “Americans now demonstrating good about Maliki, but the preoccupation with preparing for presidential elections is to prevent them from taking any action related to this matter. ”
and on the statement in some news reports that talked about the existence of problematic financial pass this deal because of the status of Iraqi funds under Chapter VII, confirmed Ugaili in touch with the “long” yesterday, saying, “It is no secret that Iraqi funds dominant by an international resolution and Muftahaa However the United States, so we at the mercy of the U.S. government and need to consent to pass the money to the success of the transaction which is unlikely. ”
and attributed Ugaili insistence Maliki government to choose this particular time to complete the transaction, to be aware of weak U.S. position busy presidential elections to be held in the month of November, and the keenness of the White House to preserve the reputation of President Obama and the fear of taking any wrong decision may harm him in the race.
pointed out that Americans “will not forgive the government on it,” witness the relationship between the two countries, according to Ugaili , serious deterioration may reflect the deteriorating security situation already.
and on the view that the country needs to diversify its sources of arms and not be linked to the fate of the state armament U.S., Ugaili said, “We are with the diversification and this is calculated to the government, and there are hundreds of pilots in addition to those retired or uprooted who they have no knowledge of aircraft the U.S., while they experienced excellent aviation Russian. ”
For his part, member of the Parliamentary Legal Hassan Jihad for “how” yesterday “that hold reinforcing Russian can not be passed as quickly as demanded by the government, due to sensitivity of the issue and its implications for Front of the country. ”
Jihad said “we are in the Kurdish bloc feeling the of any contract entered into by the ministries of defense and interior on arms because the outstanding problems and crises that are needed to radical solutions, so the issue requires a lot of discussions and approvals parliamentary, as there are questions need answers by the federal government. ”
Jihad said that “the initial demand by the government now is to speed up the delivery of services to citizens in addition to increasing financial allocations that encourage investment and support the economy, instead of disbursing funds to buy weapons that you need to balance the new.”
said Jihad “If there had to be reinforcing We need to import hardware sonar sophisticated and all that helps in the fight against terrorism,” stressing “that the funds to be allocated to this trend will pass quickly unlike deal aircraft and weapons.”
For his part, MP Abbas al-Bayati state law legal arms deal Russian, denying comments this deal on U.S. approval for the seventh item, saying that “the country out of the sanctions imposed on it by the International Organization, which was obliged to resort to the Development Fund for Iraq.” Noting “that the decision to close the fund has taken almost a year ago and therefore there is no fund and the country became free to dispose his money by reconciliation National Assembly.”
and went on al-Bayati said, “The other evidence that the country is not suffering from financial problem hindering the deal, is accepting Russian them, it is not reasonable approval Russian side to be completed without their knowledge that there is a cover financially for it. ”
and on the financial allocations to them, Bayati said, “The funds for this transaction is of funds and budget of the Ministry of Defense, not deducted from the budget of any other ministry also demanded an increase allocations earmarked for arms in the general budget of 4% to 7%. ”
He Bayati, “we’re going to complete this transaction because they deal longer quality compared to other transactions, as they are fast and good price.”
and on the fear some of the use of these weapons or direct inward , said al-Bayati, the impossibility of it, stressing that “there is a lot of means to prevent this misuse, and begins parliament and access to popular power.”
adding that “Everyone knows that this weapon will be his border protection and defense of the country only, accusing some of being behind the promotion of such these rumors to confuse the deal because of political differences known to all. ”
Regarding the relationship with the United States and the implications of this deal on them, said al-Bayati, “that the relationship with the U.S. side is the relationship between long-term strategy, and will not affect them arms deal small relative extent of reinforcing the broad forces Depending on the U.S. arms. ” Surprising to publish some of these rumors, saying “we did not hear that America has erected one of the statement on her behalf, although there was dissatisfaction from the American side to talk with us directly without appoint a mediator to talk about it.”
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