June will be test for security agreement

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Next June, the time when the U.S. troops will withdraw from cities, will be a test for the U.S. administration to know its commitment in implementing the security agreement, a lawmaker said on Thursday. “ The security agreement signed with Washington stipulates the withdrawal of U.S. troops from cities next June thus it will be a test fro the U.S. administration in implementing the agreement,” Abbas al-Bayati, member of the parliament’s security and defense committee, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “ If the U.S. side disavowed that time we will doubt all its commitments towards Iraq,” he explained. “ We have a high committee to coordinate the military operations which will determine the executive procedures of the troops’ withdrawal,” he said. On November 27, 2008, the Iraqi Parliament passed a security pact with the United States, known as the status-of-forces agreement (SOFA), 10 days after the Iraqi cabinet approved it with an overwhelming majority. SH (P)/SR   1