Nouri maliki, Iraqi vice president thanked Russia for preserving the entire Middle Eastern region from a great havoc through it support towards the Syrian and Iraqi governments.

Iraqi vice president explained to Sputnik that the Syrain government would have fall and forgotten in the Middle Eastern region map if not for the help Russia rendered.

“I have said this before and I will repeat it again – if it were not for the Russian support, the region would be fully destroyed, its map would be new and unusual … Without Russia’s approach to the Syrian issue which differs from the one of the United States, the Syrian regime would have fallen, terrorists would have intensified their actions thanks to this, the regional map would change and in the end it would lead to the fall of Baghdad,” Maliki said.

According to the official, he is giong to meet with Russian senior officials, the foreign minister [Sergei Lavrov], the head of the Federation Council [Valentina Matvienko], including President Vladimir Putin, during his visit to discuss supplies of Russian arms to the country.

He also added that he would discuss the need for Russia’s role to increase in the country and the region.

“I shall also discuss supplies of Russian arms to the Iraqi armed forces, we would like the Iraqi army to have Russian weapons as it uses it during training and is familiar with it,” Maliki said.

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