Al-Kadhimi: Security Forces development; the 60% why US-Led Coalition troops left

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  • 7-04-2021, 17:49
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    INA – Baghdad
    Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi asserted on Wednesday, that the great development in “our security forces capabilities paved the way approximately 60%, for the US-Led International Coalition to leave.
    Al-Kadhimi chaired a meeting of the Ministerial Council for National Security, during which the latest developments in the security situation in the country were discussed," according to a statement by the media office of the Prime Minister, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
    "We have basic tasks represented in protecting and fortifying the state, through strengthening and rebuilding constitutional institutions, especially the Iraqi army and the rest of our security apparatus,” stressed the PM.
    He explained Iraq's distinguished regional and international relations support in the direction of protecting the state, stressing that "last week witnessed a qualitative Iraqi contact with its surroundings and the world, whether through official visits to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, or the continuous international delegations to Iraq to strengthen cooperation and support,”
    Al-Kadhimi pointed out that "the strategic dialogue between Iraq and the United States, on which technical teams have been working for some time, will address multiple files between the two countries, including political, economic, health and cultural, as well as security cooperation, as well as the presence of the international coalition forces that were brought in to Iraq to fight Daesh terrorist gangs, and it had an influential role in this field,"