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Wednesday 03 Jun 2015 - 10:55 Makkah mean time-16-8-1436
PM Haider al-Abadi (Google image)
Paris (IINA) – Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the advance of Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq is a "failure" of the world, BBC reported.
He also said sanctions on Russia and Iran had made it difficult for Iraq to buy more weapons, adding that the country had received "almost none".
Ministers from 20 countries are in Paris to discuss ways to step up the fight against IS, which has recently made gains in Iraq despite US-led coalition air strikes, but Russia, Iran and Syria are not part of the talks.
Officials said the meeting in the French capital would focus on recapturing cities from IS and halting the group's flow of funds and fighters.
Last month, IS militants seized Ramadi in Anbar, Iraq's largest province, as well as the strategically important Syrian town of Tadmour and the neighboring ancient ruins of Palmyra.
Abadi, who is attending the talks, said Iraq needed "all the support of the world" to counter the IS advance, but was "not getting much".
"I think this is a failure on the part of the world. There is a lot of talk of support for Iraq, there is very little on the ground," he noted.
He urged the international community to help Iraq purchase weapons to fight the group, complaining that sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine and on Iran over its nuclear program, meant his government was unable to buy arms from either country.
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