Askari reveals expected visit for Biden to Baghdad on Sunday

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The member of the Foreign Relations Parliamentary Committee MP Sami al-Askari revealed that “The US Vice President Joseph Biden will visit Baghdad on top of a senior US delegation next Sunday,” explaining that “The main axis of the visit is to coordinate the stances of Washington, the UN Security Council and Iraq towards the Syrian crisis and discuss the Iraqi initiative to solve the Syrian issue.”

MP Askari from the State of law Coalition told Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) today “All indications refer that the delegation’s visit to Baghdad will be tomorrow and Biden will hold meetings with the Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi senior officials,” noting that “The important topics of the visit is to activate the strategic framework between Iraq and the United States of America and start new horizons of cooperation between Iraq and the United States since there is a joint committee which met in Baghdad and Washington earlier and started a serious dialogue between the two sides on these issues.”

He explained that “Iraq hopes of the contending parties in Syria to accept the Iraqi initiative,” stressing that “The success of the initiative depends on the willingness of others to deal with it positively and if it is not accepted will remain a dead letter.”

Askari emphasized that “The international stance began to understand the risk of dividing Syria as well as the sequences of the civil war in Syria.”

He pointed out that “The indications refer that the USA started to reconsider its stance toward the Syrian crisis, but this is not enough unless conflicting parties realize that military approach will complicate the situation rather than solve the crisis.”

“The civil war in Syria will lead to unlimited risks not inside Syria only, but pervades the countries of the region,” Askari concluded.