Baghdad The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi directed to tighten security measures to protect processions, and prevent any security breaches that might target the visitors.

A statement by the Prime Minister’s Media Office stated, “Today, Thursday, Al-Kadhimi chaired the meeting of the Ministerial Council for National Security, and during the meeting, the security plan for the forty visit was discussed, and the measures taken to protect visitors, as well as the mechanism for entering foreign visitors to Iraq and the facilities provided for them to perform the visit.”

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces directed to tighten security measures to protect processions and prevent any security breaches that might target visitors, stressing the need to implement the security plan with precision and care.

Al-Kadhimi stressed the need to activate the intelligence effort, and that the effort should be proactive, monitoring and revealing the enemy before carrying out its operations, with the importance of continuing the strikes that managed to break the back of terrorism, and strike the hideouts and hostels of the terrorist Daesh.

Also in the context of the meeting, the Ministerial Council discussed the security plan for the elections, providing all necessary means to implement it, and in a manner that secures the necessary security environment for conducting the electoral process.

The Prime Minister stressed the need for there to be communication between the security services and the Electoral Commission, through the approved communication channels, and to inform them of any abuses and violations that occur in the campaigns by the candidates.

He called for achieving the maximum flow of electoral practice, in a way that encourages active participation in it, and stressed the need for the security services to remain impartial, and to limit their duty to protecting the electoral process, and to thwart any attempt to thwart it.

The Council discussed the topics on the agenda, and issued a number of decisions regarding them, including the approval of extending the work of the international investigation team to collect and document the crimes of the terrorist Daesh

Source: National Iraqi News Agency