Democrat comments on Trump’s visit and announces his position on the withdrawal of US troops
Democrat comments on Trump’s visit and announces his position on the withdrawal of US troops
2018/12/28 8:00
Baghdad: The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), headed by Massoud Barzani, suspended US President Donald Trump’s sudden and unannounced visit to Iraq last Wednesday.
Party member Sobhi al-Mandalawi told the {Euphrates News} that “Trump’s visit caused a stir in the political street and I think it is a personal or private visit, not official or protocol, but is to visit US soldiers to a US base and we should not deal with them sensitively but congratulations to his forces on New Year and this visit got To former US presidents. ”
“It was better to inform the Iraqi government of this visit, but security concerns may have prevented that and our reservation on the visit is not to inform the Iraqi government of the visit and appreciate the security situation and US concerns,” he said.
“It is difficult to pass a decision of the House of Representatives to withdraw US forces and there is a signed agreement between Iraq and America, which allows the presence of special forces and advisers at the request of an Iraqi,” Mandalawi said.
“We will be with the decision of the parliament in the withdrawal of US forces if it is unanimously and the majority and the Kurdistan region part of Iraq, but we reserve the issuance of a decision on the matter as the existence of security concerns,” expected “the difficulty of issuing such a decision.”
He pointed out that “the visit Trump breach of sovereignty to Iraq, but we have to deal with them realistically in the security risks, according to the interpretation of the US side, a special visit to US forces and not to the State of Iraq.”
He pointed out that “the parliament if he could reach a decision contrary to the security agreement with the United States, we have no problem and there is a direction to the Kurdish leadership in the consensus with the Iraqi opinion and it is very natural that the Kurds with the Iraqi decision.”
“We have previous experiences with the United States and the latest in Syria. It remains an undeniable military force. The Kurds have interests with the United States, although they opposed the referendum in the Kurdistan region, but we remain keen on these relations and the US role is clear in Iraq as well as the role of regional states,” Mandelawi said.
A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, said that “Kurdish experiences with the Americans once and the last in Syria to withdraw from them, but reality says that it is a superpower, and Trump comes with a different strategy is more economic and everyone is trying to understand, even within the US,” calling for “to deal realistically with the American influence “He said.
“We are monitoring the situation in Iraq and the region and we are trying to take advantage of all the lessons and we have good relations with the United States and other countries,” he said, adding that “the US side has cooperation with the region and the Peshmerga and not the eyes of the Kurds.
“The US presence in Iraq is important, there are political crises and regional interventions, and this presence may achieve some balance in the forces, but certainly we are with the Iraqi federal decision and we are experiencing a new era with Baghdad after the referendum crisis and the Iraqi government is keen to establish relations with the American side, Breach ”
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