Al-Mandalawi: Iraq Is Strong And Does Not Need Foreign Forces To Protect It..And The Coming Weeks Will Witness The Legislation Of The Law Ending The US Presence

Baghdad / NINA / - Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, met today, Wednesday, with the head of the Iranian judiciary, Gholam Hossein Ejei, and his accompanying delegation, in the presence of a number of MPs and the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Muhammad Al-Sadiq.

 During the meeting, Al-Mandalawi stressed that “the repeated American attacks on Iraqi sites and figures are in violation of international law and would disturb relations between the two countries,” expressing the House of Representatives’ keenness to implement its previous decision to remove foreign forces from the country, while stating that the coming period will witness the enactment of a law to completely end their presence, and that  Iraq is a strong country that does not need foreign forces to protect it, calling at the same time on Arab and Islamic parliaments to enact laws to hold the Zionist entity and the countries that support it accountable and to criminalize relations with them.”

 The President of the Council said: The legislative authority is keen to strengthen relations with all countries of the region and neighborhood, and that it believes in cooperation and integration with the Iraqi executive and judicial authorities, and supports bilateral agreements and treaties in the field of judicial and legal cooperation between the judicial authorities of the two countries, stressing that Iraq’s role is consistent with Palestine.  And the international community and the countries of the region in particular are responsible for stopping the brutal Zionist aggression in Gaza.

 For his part, Gholam praised the role of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, describing it as exceptional, as it was the first parliament to enact a law criminalizing normalization with the Zionist entity, and this is an honorable and creditable position, stressing that the Iraqi people can manage their country in the way they see fit, while calling for more cooperation between the parliaments of the two countries on regional issues, since Iraq’s position is influential and effective.”/ End