SNSC urges full implementation of security deal with Iraq
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council emphasized the precise and complete implementation of the security agreement with Iraq.
In a meeting with Iraq’s national security adviser in Tehran on Sunday, Ali Akbar Ahmadian stressed that the security agreement between the two countries serves as a guarantee for the security of their borders and provides a reasonable and suitable roadmap for eliminating destabilizing factors in both countries and the region, IRNA reported.
The security agreement, signed in March, commits Iran and Iraq to safeguarding the principles of good neighborliness and protecting the common border.
“This agreement guarantees the security of the common border and is a rational and appropriate road map to the elimination of factors that create insecurity in the two countries and the region,” the top Iranian security official stated.
Iran had set a deadline of September 19 for the Iraqi-Kurdish authorities to take action against secessionist anti-Iranian groups stationed in northern Iraq along the common border. The agreement was made for disarmament and expulsion of terrorists from the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq.
As a part of the security agreement, the armed Kurdish groups in northern Iraq started pulling out from areas near the border with Iran on September 9, as Baghdad faced the deadline to disarm the groups.
Ahmadian also noted that there are ample opportunities for closer cooperation between the two neighbors in various fields, particularly in economic relations.
For his part, Qasim al-Araji reaffirmed Iraq’s determination to carry out the security deal with Iran.
He also noted that Baghdad would take every opportunity to strengthen relations with Tehran.