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Iraq, US to sign military handover pact: Minister

None | ByPress Trust of India, Warsaw
Sep 06, 2006 05:51 PM IST

Iraqi Defence Minister Abdel Qader Jassim said the two countries would sign a delayed accord this weekend.

Iraq and the United States will this weekend sign a delayed accord under which the US military will hand command of Iraqi units to the government, Iraqi Defence Minister Abdel Qader Jassim Mohammed said on Wednesday.

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"The agreement was delayed for technical reasons. It will be signed this weekend," he told reporters at a joint news conference in Warsaw with his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski.

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A ceremony to mark the start of a process in which Iraq's army, navy and airforce will move from US oversight and be placed under an Iraqi chain of command headed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was abruptly called off last weekend.

No explanation was given other than US officers saying Maliki's government had requested changes in the handover document.

Earlier this week, a spokesman for the Iraqi defence ministry said lawyers were fine-tuning the document, but assured that it would be signed in "the next few days."

Yassem is on a two-day visit to Poland, which has been one of Washington's most steadfast coalition allies in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.

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