For the first time .. meetings of the Iraqi government outside the Green Zone

Adel Abdul-Mahdi presides over the first session of the Iraqi Council of Ministers

The Iraqi government held its first cabinet session outside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad for the first time since 2003.

New Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi began moving his offices from the Green Zone, saying he wanted to bring his government closer to the people.

Abdul Mahdi held his first press conference in a recently reformed government complex, opposite the central railway station in the central Baghdad district of Alawi.

The new site is about three kilometers from the Green Zone.

Iraqi security forces tightly control the entrances and exits of the building, while armored vehicles guard the main gate.

"We want to consider all of Iraq a green zone," Abdul-Mahdi said at his first press conference after a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

He added that "the official is not in isolation from the Iraqi people If there is security in the Green Zone will be the security of all Iraq, if there is beauty in the Green Zone, Gamal all Iraq."

The Iraqi parliament gave confidence Wednesday to 14 ministers out of 22 in the government of Abdul Mahdi, to be reconvened on the sixth of November to complete the vote on the rest of the government cab.

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