Saturday 18 شباط 2012 11:35 GMT
Sumerian News / Baghdad
confirmed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Saturday, that her Government recognized the Iraq 131 tank type Abrams M1A1 of 140, the Iraqi government had contracted it, and as denied what some of the media that the tanks that were purchased did not hand over to Iraqi authorities, She stressed that the arms sales to Iraq, including the sale of tanks are fully transparent and accountable. the embassy said in a statement issued today, and received "Alsumaria News", a copy of it, that "U.S. arms sales to Iraq, according to the program of the Government of the United States Foreign Military Sales are fully transparent and accountable,contrary to recently published news reports, "indicating that" the sale of tanks for the army are not exempt from this transparency. " The embassy said that "the report published by the constitution, which quoted a parliamentary source as saying that the tanks that were purchased by The Iraqi army has not been handed over to Iraqi authorities is the news baseless, "asserting that" has been already delivered more than 90 per cent of these tanks, and that meal is the last of which already exist in Iraq and will be delivered soon. " explained the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that "Office of Security Cooperation with Iraq (OSC-I) of the Embassy will complete the procedures for delivery of tanks M1A1 Abrams to Iraq within the next few weeks," noting that "the Iraqi government has contracted to buy 140 tanks from the United States, all had reached Iraq was also delivered 131 of them already to the Iraqi army and is now in his possession. " and followed the U.S. Embassy in its statement that "the tanks remaining nine are in Iraq but in the possession of the United States," pointing out that "the Office of Security Cooperation with Iraq awaiting the arrival of some of the components of these tanks and then delivered them to be so complete the purchase contract with the Iraqi army, according to the criteria the Government of the United States. " The U.S. embassy in Baghdad that "the Office of Security Cooperation with Iraq will soon access these components deliver tanks remaining nine to the Iraqi army," unexpected that "this is done in the weeks to come." The Iraqi Ministry of Defense received the tenth of August of the year 2010, the first batch of tanks M1A1 Abrams U.S., which had contracted to buy 140 tanks, including the Government of the United States, as it was scheduled to arrive the rest of the tanks in the times of successive last year 2011 and year 2012 as part of the Convention on military sales between the Iraqi government and U.S.. confirmed the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, in the April 18, 2011, that Iraqi forces have mastered the use of tank M1A1 Abrams and wheel armored fighting BmB1 efficiently. A source in the the leadership of the Iraqi Navy reported that, on the ninth of December 2010, that ship U.S. loaded with eleven Abrams tank dedicated to the Iraqi army arrived, to the port of Umm Qasr in Basra, pointing out that the tanks came within the fifth installment of 140 contracted to purchase government Iraq. The Abrams tanks, the American of the best battle tanks in the world, and began planning for its production in 1971 and established company Chrysler U.S. engineering designs for this type of tanks in 1976, and built the first tank of them in 1980, and has a length with its machine 9.828 meters, and contains the gun is heavy gauge 120 mm, as well as machine gun coaxial, it is also equipped with sophisticated protection, navigation and safety. Iraq has signed and the United States, in 2008, the Framework Agreement strategy to support the ministries and agencies of Iraq in the transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic and diplomatic , cultural and security, based on the Strategic Framework Agreement and to reduce the number of PRTs in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable rule of law, including the police development program and the completion of the coordination, supervision and report to Fund Iraq Relief and Reconstruction. It is noteworthy that the United States officially ended its presence in Iraq In December of 2011, under the agreement signed between the two countries in 2008, after nine years of its military invasion in 2003, and the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein, a decision of the former U.S. President George W. Bush.
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