الأحد، 16 أكتوبر 2011

Washington denies to a decision to leave Iraq by the end of the year

Denied and the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon), news reports indicated that it made ​​a final decision to withdraw nearly all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year.

A Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement 'reported Radio Sawa `Sunday that the U.S. signals that talk about reaching a final decision on our training with the Iraqi government is wrong.

For his part, the White House denied the reports transmitted by the U.S. officials confirmed where they completely abandoned the idea of ​​maintaining a large force in Iraq as trainers for Iraqi security forces after 2011.

Said Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the White House said President Barack Obama has repeatedly stressed its commitment to preserve the agreement with the Iraqi government to withdraw all U.S. troops by the end of this year .. but at the same time stressed the need to build a comprehensive partnership with
Iraq under the Strategic Framework Agreement include the security relationship is strong.

It is noteworthy that U.S. and Iraqi officials are negotiating about the prospects for the survival of up to several thousands of American soldiers .. But the main sticking point is Iraq's refusal to grant legal immunity of those military, as demanded by Washington.

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