US State Department: International financial grants will not be handed over to Baghdad
US State Department: International financial grants will not be handed over to Baghdad
7-30-2016
Roudao – Erbil
Announced that the US State Department, the existence of misunderstanding with regard to international assistance to Iraq and how they are connected, and after about a week of hosting the United States, an international conference to help Iraq financially, which resulted in the collection of aid worth one billion and 200 million dollars for Iraq.
And about how to distribute the money to Baghdad and the Kurdistan region, said a spokesman for the US State Department, John Kirby, told a news conference, “there is a misunderstanding about how to deliver the aid.” said Kirby, that “aid will not be delivered not to the federal government in Baghdad, nor to the Kurdistan Regional government in Arbil, but will be handed over to the United Nations, and will be distributed by aid agencies and humanitarian organizations, according to the needs of different regions in Iraq, its use as a project for humanitarian aid or reconstruction of areas. ” He continued , ” the United States and the international community trusts the UN completely, it will lead those aid to displaced persons or areas liberated from the grip of Daash properly. ” and held in 20/07/2016, Maryland, conference devoted in part to help Iraq, without inviting a representative of the Kurdistan region to participate in the conference at the request of the Iraqi foreign minister, prompting regional president Kurdistan, the official Department of Foreign Affairs to express their dissatisfaction with that.
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