(AhlulBayt News Agency) - President François Hollande arrived in Baghdad on Monday to meet the French forces battling the ISIS group and to hold talks with Iraqi officials.
Speaking to French soldiers in Baghdad charged with training Iraqi special forces, Hollande said: "Taking action against terrorism, here in Iraq, is also preventing acts of terrorism on our own soil."
Hollande had come to Iraq in 2014 and remains the most prominent head of state to visit the country since the launch two and half years ago of a so-called US-led coalition against Terrorists.
Wishing the soldiers a happy new year, Hollande said 2017 “will be a year of victory, here, against terrorism”.
The French president, who is traveling with Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, will also stop in the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan during his one-day visit.
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2 January 2017 - 10:29
News ID: 802229
President of France arrived in Baghdad on Monday to meet the French forces battling the ISIS group and to hold talks with Iraqi officials.
