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Iraq presidency to review US pact in two weeks
AFP - 2 hours 52 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (AFP) - - Iraq's landmark security pact with the United States will be sent to the presidential council for a final review following its ratification by the Iraqi parliament, an official said on Friday.
"Parliament is due to submit the law on Sunday to the presidential council which has 10 days to ratify or reject it, presidential office spokesman Nassir al-Ani said, a day after lawmakers gave their backing to the controversial accord.
"If it has no reaction, it is considered adopted," he said. "If the presidential council rejects it, the pact must go back to parliament."
The pact, which was approved despite strong criticism from some hardline Shiite groups, will see all US troops withdraw by the end of 2011, eight years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
It will govern the presence of 150,000 US troops stationed in over 400 bases when their UN mandate expires at the end of the year, giving the Iraqi government veto power over virtually all of their operations.
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Iraqis watch a televised broadcast of the parliamentary session in Baghdad on November 27. Iraq's landmark security pact with the United States will be sent to the presidential council for a final review following its ratification by the Iraqi parliament.
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