July -22- 2018

 His Excellency Prime Minister Dr.Haider Al-Abadi has chaired, today on Sunday, a meeting for the ministerial council for National Security.

During the meeting they have discussed the cleansing operations carried out by our heroic security forces in the western Anbar desert to pursue the remaining terrorist cells, continuing to eradicate terrorism completely.
They have discussed the demonstrations, assuring that peaceful demonstration is a right for citizens to express their demands, which are being implemented by security crisis cell, preserving the public property and not attacking our security forces. They have stressed that the security forces are exerting all their efforts to provide protection to the demonstrators and to remove the saboteurs from these demonstrations.
The Council also has discussed the issuing of shading cars and its impact on the security situation, where the Council decided to prevent the shading vehicles with an exception for official approvals.
They have approved the memorandum of understanding on military cooperation between the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and its Hungarian counterpart.

Media office of the prime minister
July -22- 2018