Iraqi PM: ’ISIL’ Advance Failure for Whole World
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Iraq's prime minister said Tuesday that the majority of "ISIL" fighters were foreign, as he visited Paris to drum up international support for the fight against the terrorist group.
"What I can see for Iraq, the flow of foreign fighters is more than before," Haider al-Abadi told reporters, hours before a meeting of around 20 foreign ministers from the US-led anti-"ISIL" coalition in the French capital.
"There is an international problem, it has to be solved."
He said that up until recently, around six out of 10 fighters were Iraqi and the remainder foreign whereas now the proportion was reversed.
"Daesh is creating a new generation of fighters, dedicated, ideologized. They are prepared to die but they are not suicide bombers," said the prime minister.
According to the Iraqi PM, the advance of the "ISIL" in Iraq is a "failure" for the whole world community, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Tuesday, hours ahead of a crunch international meeting to refine strategy against the terrorists.
He said Iraq "needs all the support of the world" to counter the terrorist advance, but "we are not getting much. I think this is a failure on the part of the world... There is a lot of talk of support for Iraq, there is very little on the ground."
Abadi also urged the international community to help Iraq purchase weapons to fight the terrorists, saying the country had received "almost none. We are relying on ourselves."
"Because of our fiscal problems, we were not able to get into new contracts for arms supply. Most contracts were done in the previous government with the Russians," he said.
"The Russians are under sanctions now by the US, so we are finding it very difficult to pay for these arms to get them. The money is there sitting in the bank, but we cannot get them."
Abadi said sanctions also ruled out buying arms from neighboring Iran.
"We are not asking for arms, but please let us purchase arms easily."
Abadi's comments came after a huge suicide bomb against an Iraqi police base killed at least 37 people.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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