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ROMANIAN MISSION IN IRAQ 27/01/2009
(2009-01-27)
Last updated: 2009-01-28 16:04 EET Print
The document provides for 350 Romanian servicemen to further carry out non-combat missions in the Talil and Baghdad areas until July 31st. They will provide humanitarian and medical aid as well as training and counselling for the Iraqi security forces. The memorandum was approved by the Higher Defence Council last week, after being passed by the Romanian Parliament in December 2008. The authorities in Baghdad had previously called on the US, Romania, and several other countries to further participate in the efforts for Iraq's stabilization and reconstruction. The legal conditions were thus met for maintaining the Romanian soldiers in Iraq after December 31st, when the UN mandate under which the international coalition troops carried out their missions in that country expired. The bilateral negotiations that followed established in detail the non-combat type of operations and activities Romanian soldiers in Iraq will have to carry out. Similar agreements have been concluded with the US, Great Britain and Australia. Under the accords concluded, the British, Australian and Romanian troops are to leave Iraq in late July, while the American troops will be maintained there until 2011. Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu has recently said that maintaining the troops in Iraq was important to Romania, which is expected to be quote ''a security provider'' end of quote and not only a security receiver. Bucharest has been joining the international efforts of stabilizing Iraq since 2003. The casualties and the high maintenance costs gave rise to a pro-withdrawal tendency in Romania. Two years ago, President Traian Basescu firmly opposed the Government's unexpected decision, taken without consulting with the domestic partners and foreign allies, to pull out Romanian troops from Iraq. The troops were not pulled out then but this time they will withdraw and no one can accuse Romania of failing to abide by its international pledges.

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