Maliki: American forces’ presence ends by end of this year

Baghdad (NINA) - Prime Minister, Nouri Al Maliki, said “presence of the US forces is decided; it will end by end of this year, all according to what has been agreed upon.”

Maliki stressed during an interview with a satellite channel, which will be aired later, “there will not be any presence of any foreign soldier, the presence of experts and trainers and purchasing weapons is normal thing and is followed all over the world.”

He continued “today, everyone is working on solving problems, and resorting to constitution to do so. The most important thing is that everyone discovered that everyone should live and run the state.”

“Our orientation now is towards developing the economy and investment and to rapidly grow in different domains,” Maliki went on saying.

He pointed out that “Iraq managed to become a democratic state that enjoys free politics and media; it is witnessing today movement in political, economic, and social domains after the stability that took place in security.”