Corbin who is a member in the U.S negotiator team said that the discussions between Washington and Baghdad concentrate on the tasks of the U.S forces and not on their numbers. It’s worth mentioning that Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki emphasized that the U.S side initially accepted to withdraw its forces after the end of 2011 and to pull out all the combat forces from all the cities by the middle of the next year.

Regarding the Iraqi-U.S pact (SOFA), he said “It’s not necessary to be signed before the end of the tenure of the U.S President George Bush; the important thing is to be signed in order to pave the way for more cooperation between both countries.”