Maliki discuss with Russian leaders the arms deals and the Syrian issue

01-07-2013

Baghdad: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat

At a time when it declared the U.S. support for Iraq after his release from the provisions of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, he chose Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Moscow station first in a series of visits planned to do to explain the point of view of his country after she began to enjoy the full attributes of sovereignty in an effort to re-role central role played by the former Iraq before the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Maliki arrived to the Russian capital yesterday for the purpose of participating in an international conference held power there, where it is expected to become Iraq a gas-producing countries in the future. The channel Al-Iraqiya state that the semi-official high-level delegation accompanying Maliki on this visit, which is expected to last for several days and aims to promote cooperation between the two countries and to participate in an international conference on energy.

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In this context, Dr Adnan al-Sarraj, a leader of a coalition of state law, led by al-Maliki, head of the Iraqi Center for Media, told «Middle East» that «there are several objectives behind this visit, which is expected to discuss several files at once in post-exit Iraq from Chapter VII; first and foremost they come to participate in an international conference on energy to be held in Moscow, where he said that Iraq, as well as being an exporter of oil, it is taught now spending billions of dollars in order to become a producer and exporter of natural gas in the future ». He Sarraj, who is close to al-Maliki, saying: «But participation in this conference is not a title of President Maliki's visit; but that the main objective comes because the Russian role has now begun growing in the region, especially that Moscow now plays a significant role in calming the situation in Syria, Iraq and strongly supports this approach.

Sarraj pointed out that «Iraq began worried about the issue of movement of terrorists from Syria to Iraq, which is no longer possible to silence him. Sarraj revealed that «Iraq informed the Americans that the neutral position on the Syrian issue will not last long, especially as the Americans are advised and even pushing towards the Iraqi situation remains neutral in the Syrian issue, while Iraq despaired openly of the U.S. role. The OS that «In addition to the Syrian file, which is almost the most prominent files in this visit, there is a deal of Russian weapons to Iraq in excess of four billion dollars», adding that «Iraq concluded this deal, which includes about 50 system sophisticated artillery, and more than 30 aircraft ; 10 of them for the night, as well as the rehabilitation of Iraqi cadres in terms of training, equipment and other supplies.

The Maliki's visit this to Russia is the second in less than a year; has visited in October (October) last year, during which he held meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister and a number of officials, and resulted in the signing of a deal to supply Iraq with weapons Russian raised around many of the accusations existence great corruption.

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