Australia declares that its troops will not enter Iraq because Baghdad did not provide them with legal protection
Australia declares that its troops will not enter Iraq because Baghdad did not provide them with legal protection
15/10/2014 08:27 GMT
Follow-up – and babysit – Australia announced Wednesday that its soldiers did not enter Iraq because Baghdad did not provide them with legal protection, while confirming that its own forces ready to go and that there is a tremendous amount of interest they can do inside Iraq.
Reuters quoted Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott saying that “200 soldiers from the special forces were sent to fight the militants to organize the Islamic state in Iraq,” he said, adding, “They did not enter the country because Baghdad has not provided them with adequate legal protection.”
He said Abbott “The Australian soldiers assigned to undertake the tasks of advising and assisting the Iraqi army still rest in the United Arab Emirates after he arrived to in mid-September, because it is not a formal agreement on their legal status,” expected to reach “an agreement with the government of Iraqis on the “.
Abbott said that “our special forces ready to go and that there is a tremendous amount of interest they can do inside Iraq,” but he also said, “But we owe it to our own troops not to publish only if there is adequate legal protection” RO / h
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