Iraq calls for France to fulfilling a contract signed by Saddam to buy 60 Mirage fighter jets to 800 million euros
Iraq calls for France to fulfilling a contract signed by Saddam to buy 60 Mirage fighter jets to 800 million euros
02.05.2014 (0:01 pm)
Baghdad / term-Presse
Accused the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary, on Tuesday, France caving in to pressure from Saudi Arabia Israeli for non-delivery of Iraq Mirages, which has already contracted during the rule of the former regime of Saddam Hussein, but stressed the necessity of resolving the issue of the aircraft through diplomatic channels between the two countries “without the intervention of any a third party. ”
This comes at a time quoted the agency Iranian Iraqi officials revealed directed Iraqis to buy weapons and military equipment from Iran, stressing that the Iraqi Ministry of Defense looks at Iranian arms positively.
, the United States announced in January 14 last year, it was ” Sttrat currently “in his request to send military aid from Iraq despite the” commitment to help him. ” And among political analysts that Washington “does not trust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and he has powerful weapons,” and pointed out that it “aims to bring about a change in the behavior of the Maliki government,” while Iraq confirmed that “seeks to persuade America to unleash military equipment more than being an ally” .
has Washington last month to accelerate the delivery of Iraq shipment of 100 rockets Joe – Land of type Hellfire and balloons for control with nearly 10 reconnaissance planes march.
, it says Qassim al-Araji, a member of the security and defense committee, said that “the Iraqi government and the Ministry of Defense are concerned follow-up armament contracts and try to get Mirage F1 from France through the pressure it diplomatically, “accusing” France caving in to pressure from Saudi Arabia and Israel in order not to fulfill its obligations to arm Iraq. ”
saw Qasim, in an interview to the (long-Presse), that “it is not correct to refrain France for handing Iraq war planes on the pretext that they were dropped 80 percent of its debts and invited him to make a new deal, “noting that” the subject of debt differs from the arms deals may not be linkage between them. ”
said a member of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary, that “the Commission is following the matter with and the Department of Defense to get to how to restore Iraq that military aircraft, “pointing out that” Pentagon officials have complained to the Commission’s lack of cooperation on the French side. ”
Qassem added that “the file with France is political, not technical,” adding “the Iraqi Foreign Ministry under the brunt of settlement Such differences, “calling on the Iraqi ambassador in Paris, to” bring the views and create the conditions for a meeting between officials of the two countries to address this issue. ”
and rejected by the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary, “the intervention of any third party or an international organization to resolve this issue,” and expressed belief that “nearly resolved bilaterally better than any international intervention could complicate the problem.” The former Iraqi regime has been concluded with France in the eighties of the last century, during the Iran-Iraq war (1980 – 1988), the Convention on the outfitted 60 b fighter Mirage F1 worth 800 million euros, delivered to Iraq, including 18 fighter, and returned in 1990 to Paris to update, But the invasion of Kuwait and the imposition of sanctions it, pay the French side to the custody of the aircraft under the pretext of the sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council it. After the fall of the former regime in 2003, demanded that Iraq, the French government to fulfill the contract and handed over the aircraft, but Paris refused under the pretext that they were dropped at that time 80% of Iraq’s debt amounting to 4.8 billion euros, and demanded that the Iraqi government signed a new contract.
In another context, The news agency “Tasneem” Iran’s semi-official Iraqi Ambassador to Iran Mohammad Majid Sheikh that “Iraq has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Iranian side for the purchase of weapons and military equipment.”
added Sheikh, according to the Iranian news agency, that “the Iraqi Ministry of Defense are considered military equipment Iran is very effective and it is necessary to equip the Iraqi army with military equipment made in Iran. ” Did not reveal Sheikh any details about the quality of military equipment that Iraq intends to buy from Iran.
was the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary announced, the end of January last year, that “the middle of this year will see the arrival of four U.S. aircraft type (F16)” under the deal signed with Washington, and showed “The Hellfire missiles will reach Iraq soon”, and as pointed out that “America will speed up the granting of Iraq Apache helicopters during the next few months,” confirmed that “Russian weapons will turn after the arrival of the first meal of the aircraft, 35 Mi.”
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