The Iraqi government: Al-Sudani stressed to Blinken Iraq’s commitment to protecting diplomatic missions and advisors
The Iraqi government: Al-Sudani stressed to Blinken Iraq’s commitment to protecting diplomatic missions and advisors
2023-12-13 23:18
Shafaq News/ Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani stressed, on Wednesday, that the Iraqi government is committed to protecting the diplomatic missions located on its territory.
A statement from the Sudanese media office received by Shafaq News Agency stated that the latter received, yesterday evening, Tuesday, a phone call from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during which a number of topics and files in bilateral relations between Iraq and the United States of America were reviewed, and ways to strengthen them, in addition to touching on the most important issues. Developments on the regional and international arenas.
During the call, Al-Sudani stressed Iraq’s keenness to build partnerships and cooperation with brotherly and friendly countries, and to work jointly towards confronting economic, security and climate challenges, in a way that supports efforts to consolidate stability in the region.
He stressed Iraq’s commitment to protecting diplomatic missions and advisors, stressing the ability of the Iraqi security forces to carry out their duties in pursuing the perpetrators of attacks on diplomatic missions, without the interference of any external party.
For his part, the American Minister explained the continuation of joint work and communication between the two sides, welcoming the Iraqi government’s measures to secure diplomatic missions and embassies operating in Iraq, and to pursue the elements behind the attacks on them.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tweeted on his account on the social networking site “X” (formerly Twitter), saying that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made a phone call with Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani this Wednesday morning.
He added that Blinken “welcomed Iraq’s strong condemnation of recent terrorist acts against American personnel and the commitment to hold their perpetrators accountable and protect our employees in Iraq and Syria.”
The US State Department stated that Blinken condemned the missile attack on the US embassy in the capital, Baghdad.
The vicinity of the American embassy in the fortified Green Zone in the center of the capital, Baghdad, was targeted at dawn on Friday, the eighth of December, by several missiles, which did not result in any human casualties.
The attack on the US embassy in Baghdad is the first since the armed factions began, in mid-October, launching drone and missile attacks against US forces and international coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, coinciding with Israel’s war on Hamas after its attack on October 7.
The attacks stopped during a week-long truce between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel, but resumed after that truce ended at the beginning of this December.
900 American soldiers are stationed in Syria and 2,500 in Iraq on a mission that the United States says aims to advise local forces and assist them in trying to prevent ISIS from re-emerging after it seized vast areas in Iraq and Syria in 2014 before being defeated.
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