By Xinhua
Moscow : Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday urged foreign troops to withdraw from Iraq and called for a deadline for an end to the foreign troops’ presence in the country.
He made the remarks at an annual question and answer programme on the country’s main TV channels and radio stations.
Unless a date for pulling out is set, Putin said, “the Iraqi leadership, feeling (safe) under the reliable American umbrella, will not hurry to develop its own armed and law enforcement forces.”
“When they know that there is a deadline, after which there will not be American bayonets there, then, I think, they will work more effectively and harder to strengthen their own armed forces,” he said.
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