Abdul-Mahdi to Pompeo: Iraq rejects all operations that violate its sovereignty and is making unremitting efforts to prevent it from becoming a battlefield.
Abdul-Mahdi to Pompeo: Iraq rejects all operations that violate its sovereignty and is making unremitting efforts to prevent it from becoming a battlefield.
10/1/2020 13:12
[Baghdad-Ain]
Friday “resigned” Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi revealed a request he sent to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that includes sending delegates to implement the House of Representatives decision and setting “safe” withdrawal mechanisms for forces from Iraq, while noting that there are forces And American drones enter Iraq without the government’s permission.
The media office of Abdul-Mahdi said, in a statement issued today, that the latter received, yesterday evening, Thursday, a phone call from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which dealt with recent developments and the desire of various parties to prevent escalation and go to open war.
And Abdul-Mahdi stressed that Iraq rejected and rejects all operations that violate its sovereignty, including the recent operation that targeted Ain al-Assad and Erbil, noting that Iraq is making unremitting efforts and is contacting all parties to prevent its transformation into a battlefield.
Abdul-Mahdi also asked, according to the statement, the US Secretary of State to send delegates to Iraq to put in place mechanisms to implement the House’s decision to securely withdraw troops from Iraq, explaining that Iraq is keen to keep the best relations with its neighbors and friends in the international community and to protect representations and foreign interests and all those present on the territories Iraqi and that its priorities are limited to combating terrorism, ISIS and violence on the one hand, and the reconstruction of Iraq, achieving economic growth, protecting the country’s sovereignty, independence and national unity, and achieving security and stability for Iraq and the region on the other hand.
The House of Representatives voted in an extraordinary session on the 5th of this month, on a parliamentary decision in the presence of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to compel the Iraqi government to preserve the sovereignty of Iraq by canceling the request for assistance submitted by it to the international coalition to fight ISIS in order to end military operations and achieve victory, liberation and government commitment Iraqi to end the presence of any foreign forces in Iraqi territory and prevent it from using Iraqi land, water and air for any reason.
The parliamentary decision also stipulated that “the Iraqi government is committed to confining arms to the state and urgently going to the United Nations and the International Security Council and filing a complaint against the United States because of its violations and grave breaches of the sovereignty and security of Iraq and the Iraqi government to conduct investigations at the highest levels to know the causes of the American bombing and inform the House of Representatives The results are within 7 days of the date of this decision,
and the American administration announced its rejection of the Iraqi request and the parliament’s decision to leave the country
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