BAGHDAD
The government of Iraq requested the world countries on Sunday for non-interference in Egypt's internal affairs.
Ali al-Moussawi, press advisor of the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said the Iraqi government called upon all the countries not to interfere in the domestic affairs of Egypt, which is in turmoil after shaken by the recent violence and bloody crackdown by the Egyptian security forces on anti-coup protesters in Cairo, which has claimed thousands of lives and wounding many more.
"Iraqi people with might and main have always took sides with the brotherly Egyptian people who still suffers from terrorist actions. We are extending a message to the Egyptian authorities and say that the Egyptian people is able to solve its own problems via their experience and awareness, without need to any foreign interference."
Maliki government trusts the people of Egypt in these terms, added Moussawi.
Following the military coup on July 3 that ousted Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, Iraqi PM Maliki sent a congratulatory telegram to Egypt's interim president, Adly Mansour, chosen by the military authorities that mounted the military coup, expressing his support for the "Egypt’s popular choice."
Iraq's Sadr Movement called late July for toppling of the government of al-Maliki as he failed to provide security in the country, accusing Maliki and his government of failure to take action against bomb attacks and security violations in Iraq.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition party in the Turkish parliament, will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on August 21 as part of a visit in Iraq.
Kilicdaroglu is expected to arrive in Iraqi capital Baghdad on August 20 and meet leading political figures and Sunni and Shiah opinion leaders along with Maliki and pay visits to the Iraqi parliament, Kirkuk and Najaf, Kilicdaroglu's press office had said.
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