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» Saleh: worried about the weakness of the Iraqi defenses


Erbil: in the context of his current visit to the United States participated Barham Saleh, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq in the Fourth Conference of the Research Foundation for Africa and the Middle East, the U.S. held in Washington under the slogan «of history to the future», and delivered a speech at the conference in which he spoke on the developments in the region and its repercussions on the situations political and security situation in Iraq, stressing that «the region is experiencing shifts and changes rapidly, and is moving towards a new phase surrounded by a lot of mystery, but what is clear is that the peoples of the region no longer accept dictatorships, corruption and violation of their human rights legitimate, and the need for better standards of living, as well as achieving individual and public freedoms, so these developments can be considered the beginning of a new phase in the political life of the region in general ».

And on the implications of these developments on Iraq, Saleh said: «Iraq made significant achievements was not achieved easily, however, there are a lot of popular demands, which is supposed Iraqi government be met by the Iraqis, and therefore can say that we have many tasks and complex to get to the consolidation of democracy and political stability , and these tasks achieved only through true national partnership and articles of the Constitution, and we believe that the implementation of Article 140 relating to normalization of the situation of the disputed areas, and the issuance of a new law on oil and gas can put a strong foundation to work together to serve the Iraqi people ».

And on the implications of U.S. withdrawal by the end of this year, Saleh said: «You must be the end stage of a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq beginning of a new phase of other political cooperation, diplomatic and security situation between Iraq and America, to fighting both the battle of consolidation of democratic life and the human rights and freedoms, and secure a better future for Iraqis and that the Iraqi government at the level of people's demands to achieve the desired change in the political life of Iraq ».

In the same context and in a special interview with Radio «NPR» U.S. spoke in favor of the conflict between his government and the central government over oil policy and said: «Iraq's constitution allows us as a government of the Territory to take advantage of the fields and oil wells discovered newly From this point we started to work on the development of and development of oil infrastructure in the region, and on this basis let international companies to help us in the exploitation of this wealth and extraction.

Yes, there are differences between us and the federal government, and specifically with the Iraqi Oil Ministry, but recently we came up with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to agree on a draft law of oil and gas will be submitted before the end of this year to the Iraqi parliament for approval, and there is an important fact must be alert to it, namely We produce oil now and we export via pipelines of Iraq, and proceeds back to the Iraqi treasury and distributed to all Iraqis, so we need a law that defines the entire process, and ultimately the time management of oil wealth by the central authority has ended, do not return anymore to the oil policy central ».

And on the perceptions of the situation in Iraq after the withdrawal phase the U.S., Saleh said: «We are concerned about this situation, Valdvaat air and ground to Iraqi forces are still weak and below the level, a week ago I was in Baghdad and talked to my colleagues in the federal government on this subject, and there was much debate on the issue of survival or the departure of U.S. troops.

We in the Kurdistan we see the need to keep part of those forces to support us in overcoming our problems of security, but our Iraqi brothers on the other side were thinking differently, and therefore the Iraqi and U.S. governments have reached the conviction to respect the provisions of the security agreement signed in 2008, and ending U.S. military presence in Iraq , and in any case I believe that Iraq still needs the cooperation of America in this area, and on the Iraqi political leadership to assume their responsibilities and seek to fill the vacuum it will have to withdraw the U.S. military ».

Asked if he was worried about the appearance of the features of a sectarian or ethnic Saddam in Iraq after U.S. withdrawal, said the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government: «Of course I'm concerned, life in Iraq and the Middle East in general always make you worried. After all, the current climate in Iraq is in itself a challenge for political leaders, and we are ready for him, but I hope to feel all the other Iraqi political forces to the extent of the need of unity and cooperation to face the coming challenges of the future ».