Foreign Minister to visit Washington next month… and announcement of the date of the coalition’s withdrawal from Iraq
Foreign Minister to visit Washington next month… and announcement of the date of the coalition’s withdrawal from Iraq
2024-08-12
Informed Iraqi sources revealed, Sunday, August 11, 2024, that Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein will visit Washington next month.
The sources told the Iranian “Tasnim” agency that “Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein and his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken, will read during this visit in a press conference a statement on the end of the mission of the international coalition forces in Iraq.”
“Tanseem” said, according to the sources, that “the withdrawal of international coalition forces from all parts of Iraq, except for the Kurdistan Region, is scheduled to begin in September 2025.”
She added, “The international coalition forces will also evacuate the Kurdistan Region in September 2026.”
A high-ranking Iraqi security delegation headed by Defense Minister Thabet Al-Abbasi visited Washington at the end of last July, and a joint statement was issued regarding the security cooperation dialogue between the two countries.
The statement said, “An understanding was reached on the concept of a new phase of the bilateral security relationship, which includes cooperation through liaison officers, training, and traditional security cooperation programs, and the Iraqi delegation affirmed its absolute commitment to protecting the personnel, advisors, convoys, and diplomatic facilities of the United States and the countries of the international coalition.”
It is noteworthy that the head of the Supreme Committee for Ending the Mission of the International Coalition, Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah, announced on the second of last June that “the decision to set a time frame for ending the mission of the international coalition in Iraq will be taken before the date of the next bilateral committee meetings in Washington, and there is clear seriousness on the part of the coalition forces to accept the issue of ending its mission in Iraq.”
“We will not go to Washington unless we finish the mission of the international coalition,” Yarallah said.
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