H.E. Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi confirms support Popular Mobilization Units, glorifying its sacrifices

Iraq Prime Minister's Media Office
Sat, May 16, 2020

His Excellency Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi confirmed, in Statement at the Popular Mobilization Units, we moving ahead to for the final battle to root out Daesh, which is trying to reorganize its remnants, the Popular Mobilization fighters are at the forefront who implement this charge alongside their brothers in the army and the rest of the armed forces.
His Excellency Premier Al-Kadhimi added that the PMU's law number 40 issued in 2016, it is the legal framework that protects and defends it, while The State influence founded when there is Coherence between its laws and its people, pointed out that this PMU is the mobilization of the nation whose sacrifices and martyrs will be immortalized in the memory of the Iraqis.
His Excellency Premier Al-Kadhimi warned against the presence of some dissonant voices that are trying to find a gap between the PMU and the State, Saying that this skepticism must stop.
His Excellency mentioned the fact that the PMU established in response to the fatwa of the religious authority, represented by Grand Ayatollah Sayyad Ali Al-Sistani, and any kind of disrespectful to it martyrs by any part, it is totally unacceptable.
At the end of his Statement, His Excellency Prime Minister reaffirmed his support to PMU in its legal and official framework, he promised the PMU leadership to visit them to get acquainted with their needs and coordinate military operations against the Daesh terrorist organization.
The Prime Minister was received by the head of the Popular Mobilization Unit, Falih Al-Fayyad, Who delivered a speech in which he welcomed the visit of His Excellency the Premier Al-Kadhimi, in the speech he referred to the PMU's sacrifices in defending the homeland.

Media Office of the Prime Minister
May -16– 2020


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