BAGHDAD— Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Oct. 18 called for
Washington to speed up its delivery of weapons for Baghdad’s forces,
barely a week after Iraq signed $4.2 billion in arms deals with Moscow.
Maliki’s
remarks, published in a statement released by his office, came as he
met U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Ashton Carter in Baghdad and spoke of
the “need for the Iraqi army to develop its defensive abilities to
protect Iraq’s security and national sovereignty.”
He urged the
United States to “speed up the arming of the Iraqi army with what they
need in terms of defensive weapons that can protect the sovereignty of
Iraq and its independence, and provide a deterrent towards any assault,”
his office said.
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