Foreign Ministry responds to news of the sale of the land of the Iraqi embassy in Washington

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to news that it had sold the plot of land on which the Iraqi embassy to Washington is located.
A spokesperson for her name, Ahmed Al-Sahaf, said in a statement, [Wayne] received a copy of it, that “some social networking sites circulated news that the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs sold a 2,500-square-meter plot on which our embassy in Washington resides, and in exchange it bought 500-square-meter land outside the city center. meter”.

He added, “In this regard, the Ministry categorically denies this news, and confirms that the property of Iraq abroad on which our missions reside remains as it is and without any change, and has not sold any property or building from that property, but rather that it is with the Iraqi authorities with jurisdiction to take over Follow-up and coordination to preserve all Iraqi property abroad. ”

Al-Sahaf called on everyone to “be healthy, accurate in the circulation of news, and receive it from its official sources, in order to preserve the reputation of this ministry, which represents Iraq’s window on the outside world, and which is most keen to take care of the interests of Iraq, and the Iraqis residing abroad.”

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