Araji: The government sent a law to parliament to declare state of emergency in the country

Iraq

2014-04-02T11:31:22+00:00

of a state of emergency in the country if the draft law of defending the National Safety sent by the government to the parliament recently would be approved.

“The government has sent a bill of defending the National Safety to the parliament to vote on it and pass it,” Araji said in a press conference held in the parliament and attended by " Shafaq News”.

He explained that voting on this law means declaring a state of emergency in the country.

The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers announced in the 24th of last March , the cabinet's approval on the draft law of defending the national safety and forwarded it to the Parliament .

According to the statement of the General Secretariat , the law aims to " confront the security conditions , disasters and epidemics in which the the country might be affected by it as the safety of the homeland and the citizen and require urgent and exceptional measures of the state."