Canadian Foreign Ministry: We Will Reduce Our Diplomatic Presence In Iraq In 2025, 7 JUNE

 Canadian Foreign Ministry: We Will Reduce Our Diplomatic Presence In Iraq In 2025

Thursday 06, June 2024 20:13 | Political Number of readings: 107  Baghdad / NINA / The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced its intention to reduce its diplomatic presence in Iraq, after the end of its country’s strategy to confront the threat of ISIS in the coming year.

A Canadian Foreign Ministry spokesperson told the Kurdish media network Rudaw: “Canada’s Middle East strategy, which was originally created to confront the direct threat posed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and its effects on neighboring countries Lebanon and Jordan, will end in March 2025.”

The spokesman added, "When the strategy ends, Canada's diplomatic presence in Jordan and Iraq will be reduced, and our office in Erbil in the Kurdistan region will be closed. "

He stressed that Canadian embassy officials in Iraq will “actively” maintain regular communication with officials and people in the Kurdistan region.

A Canadian Foreign Ministry spokesman explained that these changes are consistent with the process of refocusing government spending, indicating that in the 2023 budget, the Canadian government committed to reducing spending by $14.1 billion over the next five years, starting from 2023-2024.

Canada is a member of the US-led international coalition against ISIS, which was formed in 2014 after the organization took control of large areas of Syrian and Iraqi territory./End 9 https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=1131079