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Iraq
Hill: We wonÂ’t leave any unfinished tasks prior to pullout
2010-07-12
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: U.S. ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill urged on Saturday all Iraqi political parties to speed up forming a government, stressing that his government does not back a certain figure in Iraq.

“The United States are arranging things in the disputed areas prior to the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and will not leave any unfinished tasks,” Hill said during a press conference he held at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

Asked by Aswat al-Iraq news agency about a solution to end the government forming crisis, Hill replied that the Iraqi government “must be formed from all groups. There are three sovereign posts that must be distributed in accordance with proportion”.

He noted that the United States wants a long-term relationship with Iraq no matter the figure who would form a government is.

“Our signing of a framework agreement with Iraq goes beyond the pullout of combat troops from the country,” he said. “By the time the last U.S. soldier would get out of Iraq, the Iraqi army would be one of the best in the region."
That's very likely true as long as our army is allowed to keep working with the Iraqis.
U.S. troops had withdrawn from Iraqi cities on June 30, 2009 as a prelude for the withdrawal of all combat forces from the country by August 2010 in accordance with the U.S. plans to pull out of Iraq and in line with the status of forces agreement (SOFA) Iraq and the United States had signed on December 13, 2008.
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