📋 Tender Overview
The Netherlands has extended the broad deployment of security in Iraq until the end of 2021. The House of Representatives was informed in a letter about the further implementation of this commitment. The extension itself was already announced in June this year.The extension means among other things that about 60 Dutch soldiers will also provide training for Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region Northern Iraq and Baghdad over the next two years. The Netherlands is active there to help strengthen the Iraqi security sector. That should help prevent organizations like ISIS from re-emerging in the country.In addition to training by the armed forces the Netherlands remains active in the NATO mission in Iraq NMI with a contribution to around 20 military and civilian experts. NMI advises the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and military training institutions. The Netherlands also continues to contribute to the EU Advisory Mission which supports the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior. Finally Dutch military and civilian experts will advise the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs in Erbil to continue to contribute to security in the Kurdish region.In June the Cabinet wrote that the mandate for the Dutch contribution was extended until December 31 2021. Dutch efforts in Iraq remain focused on contributing to the protection of the civilian population and within the framework of the international legal order. to prevent further rising tensions.
