Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim meets with US, German delegations

Rasa – The chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq has met separately with a delegation from the United States and Germany, where they discussed the battle to liberate Mosul and the post-ISIL situation in Iraq.

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Date: 18 August 2016 - 21:41

RNA – On Wednesday, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, the chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, met with a group of American congressmen headed by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker in Baghdad, where they “discussed the battle to liberate Mosul and the post-ISIL situation” in the war-torn country.

The senior Iraqi cleric stressed the necessity of assisting refugees and added that all countries must cooperate to assist and help those displaced by ISIL and support Iraq in the humanitarian arena, adding the current situation could worsen with the beginning of the process to liberate Mosul.

He described the government’s post-liberation plan for Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul, which has been controlled by ISIL Takfiri terrorists since June 2014, saying that a comprehensive plan for security across the country has been developed which involves increasing the level of intelligence, the reconstruction of liberated areas, the return of refugees, national unity, fighting corruption and comprehensive and revolutionary administrative reform which should be implemented after the liberation of Mosul from the clutches of terrorism.

Hujjat al-Islam al-Hakim stressed the need to preserve Iraq’s national unity through peaceful coexistence between the various ethnic and religious groups among the Iraqi people.

In other remarks, he noted the building a strategic relationship with the United States, saying this would benefit both countries and added that the US should be seen as one of the world’s major countries and play an influential role in resolving the current crisis in Bahrain.

The chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq aslo met Franz Josef Kremp, the German ambassador to Baghdad, to review the latest security developments in the region and the fight against ISIL, and said: “The world needs to unite in order to fight and eradicate ISIL in Iraq in order protect other countries from having to fight ISIL on their own soils.”

Hujjat al-Islam al-Hakim also expressed his condolences over the recent terrorist and security incidents that occurred in a number of Germany cities, describing these incidents as an extension of the terrorism that Iraq is exposed to during the past thirteen years.

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