Foreign Ministry: America’s initial decision to withdraw the embassy is a private matter, but it may not be in the interest of Iraq

Foreign Ministry: America’s initial decision to withdraw the embassy is a private matter, but it may not be in the interest of Iraq

10/04/2020 18:19:29

Foreign Ministry - Americas initial decision to withdraw the embassy is a private matter but it may not be in the interest of Iraq(Baghdad: Al Furat News) Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein received a phone call from German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, and the conversation focused on bilateral relations and ties between the two countries, and the US administration’s initial decision to withdraw the embassy from Baghdad.
Hussein expressed, with the withdrawal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement, “his concern about this decision, despite it being a sovereign decision on the American side, but it may lead to results that are not in the interest of the Iraqi people.”

He also affirmed that “the Iraqi government has taken a number of security, organizational, political, and diplomatic measures to stop the attacks on the Green Zone and the airport, and there will be tangible positive results in the near future.”

They discussed “the various future possibilities for the status of diplomatic missions in Baghdad, and the two sides also stressed the importance of continuing to exchange views and communicate in order to find solutions to this crisis.”

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