Maliki and Obama agree on the need to start strategic relati

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Maliki and Obama agree on the need to start strategic relations between the two countries after the U.S. withdrawal

Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Friday, through his contact with the U.S. President, the need to begin a new phase of strategic relations after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq at the scheduled end of the year, while stressing the importance of implementing the Strategic Framework Agreement between the two countries.

A statement issued by Maliki’s office, today, and got “Alsumaria News”, a copy of it, during a videoconference with U.S. President Barack Obama, “The views were identical between the two sides, the need to initiate a new phase of strategic relations within the Strategic Framework Agreement after the withdrawal schedule in the end of this year, “noting that” the two sides agreed on the need to convene a meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Higher Strategic Framework Agreement within two weeks. “

The statement added that “the two sides stressed the importance of implementing the vocabulary of the strategic framework agreement in the scientific, cultural, developmental, and others, to serve the interests of both countries,” adding that “Obama has extended an invitation to the Prime Minister to visit the United States.”

The U.S. President Barak Obama said, earlier today, that his country’s troops in Iraqi territory would be in the United States during the holidays, while stressing that Washington will support Iraq in all fields.

Previously, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on August 30 last, that the withdrawal of U.S. troops will be implemented on schedule later this year, as there will be no base for U.S. forces in the country.

Iraq has signed and the United States, too, in 2008, the Framework Agreement strategy to support the ministries and agencies of the Iraqi transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, based on reducing the number of reconstruction teams in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable for the rule of law, including development program in which the police and the completion of the coordination, supervision and report to the Fund for Iraq relief and reconstruction.

Under the security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 that it should withdraw all U.S. forces from all territories and waters and airspace of Iraq not later than 31 December of 2011 the current, having withdrawn U.S. combat forces under the Convention, of the cities and villages and towns in Iraq June 30, 2009.

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