"Disclosure of" secret "negotiations between the Department of Trump Abadi to keep US troops in Iraq

"Disclosure of" secret "negotiations between the Department of Trump Abadi to keep US troops in Iraq



17/05/2017


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The newspaper "The Washington Times" Wednesday, the start of a "serious secret" negotiations, the beginning of the month of May between US President Donald Trump's administration and the Iraqi government to keep US troops in the country, revealed, noting that Washington faces a new challenge to deal with Iraq, Obama failed to get it It is an agreement concerning the survival of US forces in Iraq after the defeat of "Daesh" .
The paper quoted in its report on senior American officials as saying that "the negotiations between Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and American officials on the new status of forces agreement began in earnest this month, Sri" .
The newspaper added that "the Convention will determine the legal and diplomatic factors that will be the long-term US military presence in the country and avoid a power vacuum that developed after the withdrawal of US troops end of 2011, the occurrence ".
She explained that the "sensitive issue in Iraq, while insisting Abadi this month as combat troops in the country will not be after the defeat of Daesh though the Iraqi and US sides talked about the continuation of a long-term military role in the country," noting that "for the approval of the security adviser Kurdistan Masrour Barzani, where noted during his visit to Washington that he and his father, Massoud Barzani would support an agreement allowing US troops to stay in Kurdistan after the liberation of Mosul" .
The report said that "Despite the continuing fears of internal unrest in Iraq and in the region, the road to a new agreement on the status of US troops remains a political danger as analysts pointed out that al-Abadi's comments reflect the political tension and that he would go with some factions in the Iraqi government to complete the forces agreement with Washington rather than the death knell for any agreement on the status of those forces" .
The paper quoted a senior US analyst at Hritad Foundation for Middle East Affairs Jim Phillips was quoted as saying that "the political situation is volatile and that the public discourse presented by Abadi may give him space with Massoud Barzani and other intermediaries to start secret negotiations with the Trump administration" .
He added Phillips that "among the characters that will have a significant impact on the talks, former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and former President Jalal Talabani and Mr. Muqtada al-Sadr also among the figures, which also will have a significant impact Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji, and Defense Minister Irfan Hayali" .
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