URGENT Abadi and Senate delegation discuss reduction of US advisers


Date of release: 2018/7/4 0:03 • 185 times read
(Baghdad: Al Furat News) Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and a US Senate delegation discussed reducing the number of US advisers in Iraq.

A statement by the Prime Minister’s office said that Abadi received in his office Tuesday a delegation from the US Senate. The delegation included Sen. Linthari Graham, a South Carolina Republican, a member of the financial allocations, the Armed Services Committee and Senator Elizabeth Warren is a Democrat from Massachusetts, a member of the Armed Services Committee, US Ambassador to Iraq Douglas Seelman, General Paul Fink, commander of the International Coalition Forces in Iraq and Syria, and a number of advisers in the US Senate.
“During the meeting, they discussed relations between the two countries, supporting Iraq in all areas and conditions in the region and reducing the number of American advisers in Iraq,” he said.
The Senate delegation praised the “ability of the Iraqi forces and their victory over gangs, calling for terrorism, liberating Iraqi lands and protecting civilians,” stressing “continuing support for Iraq in the areas of training and armament.”

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