US Vice Foreign Minister to visit Basra, "secret" and meet with tribal figures.

14/05/2016
| (Voice of Iraq) - Basra revealed committee to resolve tribal conflicts in Basra on Saturday, visiting the "secret" of the Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Chinon to the province, and as confirmed he had met with tribal figures "without the knowledge of the local government," questioned as "those intentions meetings. " the head of the committee to resolve tribal conflicts in Basra expresses Muhammadawi that" Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Chinon arrived in Basra , in secret, on an unannounced visit , where he met personalities clan in one of the houses without the knowledge of the local government. " he denounced Muhammadawi," visit and meetings it has not carried out under the local government umbrella, was not dialogues , which declared, "questioning" the intentions of these meetings, which had aimed to target the province of Basra social fabric tearing society. " He stressed Almamedoaa, on the need to" be thus encounters the level of deputy foreign minister under the umbrella Iraqi state and social figures attended the meeting , the local government , "stressing that" some embassies and consulates did not have a positive role in Basra , "calling on the security forces to" take the role to maintain the security of the province.

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