Chief of Iraqi army staff submits resignation-MP (al-Maliki rejected it)

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Source: Voice of Iraq

Baghdad, Jul 31, (VOI)- General Babikr Zibari, chief of Iraqi army staff, submitted his resignation but the Iraqi Prime Minister and Armed forces Command-in-Chief rejected it, a Kurdish legislator said on Tuesday.

"General Babikr Zibari, a Kurdish professional officer, has submitted his resignation for technical and professional, not political reasons, but the Prime Minister who is also the Iraqi Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief rejected it," parliamentarian Fariad Rawandozi, from the Kurdistan Alliance, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

Rawandozi added "the resignation came due to differences between General Zibari and the current Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qader Mohammed al-Obeidi."
"There are efforts made to settle these differences between the top military officials," the legislator said.

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