Parliamentary Security reveals the intention of Iraq to contract to purchase a modern air defense system
Parliamentary Security reveals the intention of Iraq to contract to purchase a modern air defense system
05/16/2021 14:12:34
The Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee revealed that the government is seeking to equip a modern air defense system.
A member of the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee, Ziyad al-Janabi, said in a statement to the Euphrates News Agency that “the Ministry of Defense has a number of military contracts with Russian and foreign companies to consolidate the Iraqi air defense system.”
He added, “We fully support him and will continue to intensively arm the security forces.”
The Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee, Nayef Al-Shammari, revealed earlier that “the financial budget for 2021 included allocations to provide the armed forces with modern equipment to keep pace with the development in the armies of the world, and that the committee held several meetings with the Minister of Defense and the commander of air defense in this regard,” indicating During the next few months, the government will contract with important companies to provide Iraq with a modern air defense system. ”
He pointed out that “the contract is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, and through the Department of Equipping and Armament in the Ministry, and we will monitor all the contracts that it will enter into.”
The American “Wall Street Journal” had previously reported, citing Iraqi parliamentarians, that the Iraqi government was considering moving forward with discussing the purchase of Russian “S-400″ air defense systems, but the US State Department announced that it might impose sanctions on it if it decided to purchase the systems. Russian.
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