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International: The Euphrates News. The US State Department sent to Congress this month detailed plans to dramatically reduce the number of US diplomats in Iraq, a measure that critics say runs directly against the declared goals of President Donald Trump's administration in the country and undermines Washington's efforts to stabilize Iraq.
The documents sent by the State Department to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and obtained by foreign policy highlight a new light on the ministry’s decision earlier this year to reduce the number of diplomats and other US personnel in Iraq.
The US Mission in Iraq will reduce the number of employees at its embassy, diplomatic support center, and consulate in Erbil, in northern Iraq, from 486 to 349, a decrease of 28 percent, by the end of May 2020.
The majority of staff will leave from the State Department, but agencies Other government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will also reduce the size of their embassy staff, the document shows.
And the Trump government is shrinking the size of the U.S. embassy at a time of political unrest in Iraq amid anti-government protests, after more than 15 years of military intervention in the country, the United States still has about 6000 soldiers in Iraq in the wake of the military campaign against ISIS, and poured About $ 1.5 billion in aid to the country in 2018.
In the documents it sent to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Rich, a Republican from Idaho, the US State Department insists that the new staffing levels "will allow the Iraq mission to continue to achieve Its goals The core, and to carry out monitoring and control of adequate programs. "
But critics scoffed at the move.
Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and top Democrat on the subcommittee that oversees Middle East issues, said, "The administration appears to believe that we can manage the volatile situation in Iraq through a team of diplomats that may not be a coincidence that Iraq collapses." Since we started reducing our presence in the embassy, we need to find a way to reverse the path - quickly. "If we do not do this, I fear that Iraq will continue to slip into a crisis without a political solution, and we will be in a worse position to defend our national security interests,"
he said . A Foreign Ministry spokesman for foreign policy in response to "Ensuring the safety of US government employees and American citizens abroad is our top priority,"
he added. "Our embassy in Baghdad and our consulate in Erbil are open for business, and Ambassador [Matthew] Tueller and his team are participating daily."
And that "Iraq is one of the most important strategic partners in the region, and we are committed to full engagement with our Iraqi partners and the Iraqi people to support a united, democratic, federal and prosperous Iraq."
Since the costly US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States embassy in Baghdad has expanded into a large and sprawling complex housing thousands of logistics, contractors and security personnel. Despite the size of the embassy and the staff, only a small percentage comes from the State Department. Fewer still work in key diplomatic functions, including political and economic officials.
These small numbers will be further lowered from the pre-departure levels ordered by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as documents show.
The number of political officials at the embassy will decrease by 30 percent, from 10 to 7 officers; the number of consular officers will decrease by 58 percent, from 12 to 5, while officers who focus on political and military affairs will decrease by 33 percent, from six to four.
The Pentagon will also reduce the number of its staff at the US embassy in Baghdad from 111 to 63, and the US Agency for International Development will reduce 11 out of 19 locations.
And last May, Bombo ordered all non-emergency personnel of the US diplomatic mission in Iraq to withdraw from the country based on unspecified threats from Iran, the main rival of the United States in the region.
In June, foreign policy stated that the ministry would make the gradual withdrawal of emergency permanent.
And the government agency report released last month identified that the required departure of USAID staff "had significant negative impacts on program planning and oversight and supervision activities in Iraq", with USAID managing more than $ 1 billion in humanitarian assistance programs, ProPublica reported.
Last year, the Trump administration closed the U.S. consulate in Basra, the city of southern Iraq. The top US diplomat at the consulate, Timmy Davis, opposed the decision to close the consulate through official opposition channels in the State Department before the order was eventually implemented.
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[rtl]International: The Euphrates News. The US State Department sent to Congress this month detailed plans to dramatically reduce the number of US diplomats in Iraq, a measure that critics say runs directly against the declared goals of President Donald Trump's administration in the country and undermines Washington's efforts to stabilize Iraq.
The documents sent by the State Department to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and obtained by foreign policy highlight a new light on the ministry’s decision earlier this year to reduce the number of diplomats and other US personnel in Iraq.
The US Mission in Iraq will reduce the number of employees at its embassy, diplomatic support center, and consulate in Erbil, in northern Iraq, from 486 to 349, a decrease of 28 percent, by the end of May 2020.
The majority of staff will leave from the State Department, but agencies Other government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will also reduce the size of their embassy staff, the document shows.
And the Trump government is shrinking the size of the U.S. embassy at a time of political unrest in Iraq amid anti-government protests, after more than 15 years of military intervention in the country, the United States still has about 6000 soldiers in Iraq in the wake of the military campaign against ISIS, and poured About $ 1.5 billion in aid to the country in 2018.
In the documents it sent to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Rich, a Republican from Idaho, the US State Department insists that the new staffing levels "will allow the Iraq mission to continue to achieve Its goals The core, and to carry out monitoring and control of adequate programs. "
But critics scoffed at the move.
Senator Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and top Democrat on the subcommittee that oversees Middle East issues, said, "The administration appears to believe that we can manage the volatile situation in Iraq through a team of diplomats that may not be a coincidence that Iraq collapses." Since we started reducing our presence in the embassy, we need to find a way to reverse the path - quickly. "If we do not do this, I fear that Iraq will continue to slip into a crisis without a political solution, and we will be in a worse position to defend our national security interests,"
he said . A Foreign Ministry spokesman for foreign policy in response to "Ensuring the safety of US government employees and American citizens abroad is our top priority,"
he added. "Our embassy in Baghdad and our consulate in Erbil are open for business, and Ambassador [Matthew] Tueller and his team are participating daily."
And that "Iraq is one of the most important strategic partners in the region, and we are committed to full engagement with our Iraqi partners and the Iraqi people to support a united, democratic, federal and prosperous Iraq."
Since the costly US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States embassy in Baghdad has expanded into a large and sprawling complex housing thousands of logistics, contractors and security personnel. Despite the size of the embassy and the staff, only a small percentage comes from the State Department. Fewer still work in key diplomatic functions, including political and economic officials.
These small numbers will be further lowered from the pre-departure levels ordered by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as documents show.
The number of political officials at the embassy will decrease by 30 percent, from 10 to 7 officers; the number of consular officers will decrease by 58 percent, from 12 to 5, while officers who focus on political and military affairs will decrease by 33 percent, from six to four.
The Pentagon will also reduce the number of its staff at the US embassy in Baghdad from 111 to 63, and the US Agency for International Development will reduce 11 out of 19 locations.
And last May, Bombo ordered all non-emergency personnel of the US diplomatic mission in Iraq to withdraw from the country based on unspecified threats from Iran, the main rival of the United States in the region.
In June, foreign policy stated that the ministry would make the gradual withdrawal of emergency permanent.
And the government agency report released last month identified that the required departure of USAID staff "had significant negative impacts on program planning and oversight and supervision activities in Iraq", with USAID managing more than $ 1 billion in humanitarian assistance programs, ProPublica reported.
Last year, the Trump administration closed the U.S. consulate in Basra, the city of southern Iraq. The top US diplomat at the consulate, Timmy Davis, opposed the decision to close the consulate through official opposition channels in the State Department before the order was eventually implemented.
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