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| Iraq MPs reject law on UK troops | Iraq MPs reject law on UK troops |
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| Iraq's parliament has rejected a draft law that would allow troops from the UK, Australia and a number of other countries to remain after 2008. | Iraq's parliament has rejected a draft law that would allow troops from the UK, Australia and a number of other countries to remain after 2008. |
| The bill would have given these foreign forces a legal basis for staying in Iraq once the current United Nations mandate ends on 31 December. | |
| The draft, rejected by 80-68 votes, now goes back to the cabinet for amendment. | |
| US forces are allowed to remain until the end of 2011 under a separate status of forces agreement. | US forces are allowed to remain until the end of 2011 under a separate status of forces agreement. |
| Fariad Rawndouzi, a Kurdish MP, told the BBC that many of his colleagues were not happy with the formulation of the draft law, and wanted it to more closely resemble the deal between the US and Iraq. | |
| Earlier in the week, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the UK planned to withdraw its remaining troops from Iraq by the end of July. |