On 18 September, Qasim al-Araji, adviser to Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, said there was no specified period for the committee working to confine weapons to state control. His denial followed reports variously describing 30 September as a government disarmament deadline or as the beginning of a longer weapons-regulation process.
- الحرة16 Sept, 19:14
“The Iraqi government is now treating Sept. 30 as the start of a process to regulate weapons held by armed factions, rather than as the deadline for bringing those weapons under state control.”
- malaysiasun.com18 Sept, 03:10
“Iraq is facing two major deadlines at the end of September: the end of the decades-long U.S. military presence and a government demand for non-state armed groups to give up their weapons.”
- Sabereen NewsKH — affiliated18 Sept, 17:12
“Everything recently circulated on social media about setting a time limit for the work of the weapons-confinement committee is completely untrue; there is no specified period for confining weapons to state control.”
كل ما تم تداوله مؤخرًا عبر مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي بشأن حدوث تحديد سقف زمني لأعمال لجنة حصر السلاح هو أمر غير صحيح إطلاقًا؛ إذ لا توجد أي مدة محددة لحصر السلاح بيد الدولة.