Biden extends Iraq’s national emergency for more year, 22 MAY

Biden extends Iraq’s national emergency for more year

Baghdad today – follow-up

U.S. President Joe Biden announced today, Monday, May 20, 2024, that Iraq’s national emergency has been extended for an additional year.

“Obstacles to the orderly reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and security, and the development of Iraq’s political, administrative and economic institutions continue to pose an unusual threat to Iraq’s national security and foreign policy as well,” Biden said in a letter to the U.S. Congress and published by the White House.

“Therefore, the national emergency for the stability of Iraq will continue to be in effect after May 22, 2024 for an additional year,” he explained.

Resolution 13303 on Iraq was passed in 2003 under former US President George W. Bush.

The decision means that the U.S. president has the right to issue orders for international trade, and everything related to any threat to U.S. national security, based on which former President George W. Bush, who on May 22, following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, issued an order 13303 to declare a state of national emergency in the United States.

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