Azerbaijan, Baku, 11 November / corr Trend K.Zarbaliyeva / The Iraqi Government appraises the Azerbaijani peacekeepers' role in establishment of stability in the country.
"The Iraqi Government hails participation of the Azerbaijani senior military, civil and parliamentary delegation at the Azerbaijani peacekeepers' seeing off ceremony," Arshad Omar Ismayil, the Iraqi Ambassador to Azerbaijan, said on 11 November.
The Azerbaijani President has sent a bill on withdrawal of the Azerbaijani peacekeepers from Iraq with legislation initiative. Presently, 150-member peacekeeping contingent of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces serve in Iraq within composition of the Multinational Forces.
The Azerbaijani peacekeepers have protected the biggest Hadisa dam and Hydropower Station in Iraq since August 2003.
According to the Ambassador, the Azerbaijani Government always supported new system in Iraq and condemned all terror attacks, which the country suffered.
The bill will be discussed at the Parliament within few days.
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