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The Iraqi army confirmed that the decision to remove American forces from Iraq is "a sovereign decision and includes all Iraqi lands, including the Kurdistan region, as it is part of Iraq."
A spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major General Abdul Karim Khalaf, as saying in a statement today quoted by the Iraqi Media News Agency, "Conscious", that Iraq submitted requests to the United Nations for the exit of the American forces from the country after its victory over the terrorist organization "ISIS", according to a memorandum Presented by former Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari to end the work of the international coalition led by Washington, stressing that Iraq will not have any "financial and political commitment" after that.
Khalaf pointed out that any movement of the international coalition on the level of air sorties through Iraqi airspace is not carried out only after the approval of the Iraqi government, but the attacks by the American forces on the headquarters of the popular crowd in the city of Qaim in Anbar province in late December and the occurrence of dozens of martyrs and wounded among the crowd forces Then her aggression on January 3 near Baghdad airport, which resulted in the martyrdom of the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and the team Qasim Soleimani, and their comrades hastened to the demands of the exit of the American forces after we asked about their use of our airspace to carry out an attack. They are.
Khalaf pointed out that the number of foreign forces in Iraq was less than 6 thousand for the alliance as a whole, while the number of Americans was within the 5 thousand and their presence was limited to camps, not bases. He said that "NATO mission has been in Iraq since 2005 and we have informed them of the framework within which they are moving and their presence will be far On building military bases as part of a new mechanism for the Iraqi government that I prepared for them. ”
Khalaf had confirmed yesterday that Iraq had not given approval to resume the operations of the American army in the country, as the Iraqi government announced yesterday its refusal to sign an agreement to keep American forces in Iraq, indicating that it would support the vote of the Iraqi parliament that demands the removal of these forces from the country.
The Iraqi Council of Representatives voted on the fifth of this month by an absolute majority on a decision obliging the Iraqi government to end the foreign presence in the country after the American crimes against high-level Iraqi and friendly military headquarters and leaderships.