Thread by @MT_Strat

#Iraq’s Parliament passes non-binding resolution to expel #OIR forces:
“The govt commits to revoke its request for assistance from the int’l coalition fighting IS due to the end of military operations in Iraq & achievmnt of victory”
Read @Mustafa_salimb:
bit.ly/2Fk97GU

In Arabic, the Iraqi Parliament resolution to remove all #OIR Coalition forces from #Iraq:
bit.ly/35vTl6F
English in thread to follow…

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01/05/2020 The Council of Representatives [Parliament] voted in its extraordinary session, which was chaired by Mr. Mohamed Al-Halbousi, Speaker of the Council, today, Sunday 5/1/2020, in the presence of 172 deputies, during which the Prime Minister, Mr. Adel Abdul-Mahdi,…

2/ …hosted a parliamentary decision that obliges the government to end the presence of foreign forces in Iraq.
At the beginning of the session, Mr. Al-Halbousi, on behalf of the Council of Representatives, offered his deepest condolences for the martyrdom of…

3/ …the hero of liberation, Mr. Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, in the recent incident in Iraq.
The ladies and gentlemen read Surat Al-Fatihah to have mercy on the soul of the deceased Iraq and all the martyrs.
Then, Mr. Mohamed Al-Halbousi, Speaker of the Council of Representatives,…

4/ …welcomed the attendance of Mr. Adel Abdel-Mahdi, Prime Minister, to the special session.
The Prime Minister read his message to the Council of Representatives and included his condolences for the martyrs offered by the homeland and his sons, the last of whom were…

5/ …the [other] martyrs who fell during the past days after the sinful aggression they were subjected to, as well as a review of the events and their escalation in light of the tension between the United States and Iran after the American abandonment of the nuclear agreement…

6/ …and repercussions. This is due to events [in Iraq] during the past period, noting that the presence of the American forces, and therefore the coalition forces, refers to two letters from the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the UN Security Council, which outlined…

7/ …the mission of the forces to fight ISIS, train Iraqi forces, and provide Aid technological and legal basis after another agreed that Iraq and the United States to schedule the withdrawal of its troops and completion in December 2011.
Mr. Abdul-Mahdi presented…

8/ …a summary of the letters submitted by Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, on June 25, 2014, and Mr. Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Sept. 20, 2014, which the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the UN carried, about…

9/ …the difficult circumstances in Iraq and requested urgent assistance in defeating ISIS. According to bilateral or multilateral agreements and full respect for national sovereignty and the constitution agreed by the Iraqi government to strike ISIS positions and their…

10/ …their military [training camps], which would end ongoing threats to Iraq and protect citizens. In his message, the Prime Minister indicated that the Ministerial Council for National Security, which had held its session on 1/3/2019, could have taken a decision that…

11/ …the government deems to be in the interest of Iraq without referring to the Council of Representatives, realizing that the legal basis for the presence of foreign forces was established by the two letters referred to and issued by the Iraqi government. The two ministers…

12/ …[though] signed by the Foreign Minister…did not issue a decision by the Council of Representatives, noting that the government is keen on crystallizing and adopting a clear and sustainable national position based on a broad rule regarding [strategy], which imposes…

13/ …a study of options and the consequences of each before making the decision [for] the country [to] protect its sovereignty and prevent the violation of its security and interference in their affairs or threatens the national fabric.
Mr. Abdul-Mahdi has presented 2 options…

14/ …before [the Council]. The first is to end the presence of the forces with urgent procedures and make arrangements for that. The second option includes returning to a draft resolution that was before [the Council] prior to forming the current government…

15/ …providing [for] a number of facts [in] the relationship between Iraq and the United States, especially the implications of what happened on last Friday, the assassination of the two martyrs, Abu Mahdi, the engineer, and the team of Qassem Soleimani,…

16/ …and their Iraqi and Iranian comrades, which represented a political assassination that sparked legal debate, even in the United States. How can Iraq accept it and consider it an act that serves it?
The Prime Minister recommended that the first option be adopted despite…

17/ …some internal and external difficulties that Iraq might face as the best in principle and in practice to reorganize healthy relations with the United States and the rest of the countries [and to] establish a solid fundamental friendship based on respect for sovereignty…

18/ …and non-interference in internal affairs and the promotion of common interests [thus] calling for a resolution…[in] forming the next government that [moves beyond] daily matters.
Representative Nabil Al-Tarfi, head of the Alliance Movement, [presented] a…

19/ …message from Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist movement, to the Council of Representatives, demanding that the security agreement be canceled immediately, not abide by its unfair and humiliating clauses,…

20/ …immediately closing the US Embassy in Iraq, closing US bases, expelling them in a humiliating manner, criminalizing communication with the US government, punishing it, and assigning The Iraqi Army with disciplined national resistance and…

21/…the protection of other embassies in Iraq and the boycott of American products, calling on the Iraqi resistance factions and the factions outside Iraq for an immediate meeting to announce the formation of international resistance regiments even if they [are not yet manned]…

22/ …The Council voted unanimously on a parliamentary decision that includes obliging the Iraqi government to cancel the request for assistance submitted by it to the international coalition to fight ISIS, to end military and war operations in Iraq and…

23/ …[having achieved] victory and liberation, for the commitment of the Iraqi government to end the presence of any foreign forces in Iraqi territory and prevent it from using Iraqi lands, water and air for any reason,…

24/ …and that the Iraqi government is committed to confining arms to the state. The decision includes the Iraqi Foreign Minister urgently going to the UN and the UN Security Council and filing a complaint against the United States of America for its violations of and serious…

25/ …breaches of the sovereignty and security of Iraq, and the Iraqi government conducting investigations at the highest levels to know the causes of the American bombing and inform the Council of Representatives of the results within seven days from the date of this decision,…

26/ …which would be implemented from the date of voting on it, in addition to the possibility of proceeding with the legislation to abolish the strategic framework agreement between Iraq and the United States of America.
The session adjourned until next Saturday 11/1/2020. /end

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