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IANS | 25 Apr, 2017
Australian Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull travelled to Iraq and Afghanistan to visit his troops
in the region and to asses his country's military contribution, an
official release on Tuesday said.
"The Prime Minister has marked
Anzac (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day with a visit to
the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq," the Prime Minister's office wrote
on its Twitter account along with photographs of this trip, Efe news
reported.
During his two-day visit, Turnbull met with Iraqi Prime
Minister Haider al-Abadi in Baghdad as well as Afghan President Ashraf
Ghani and US Secretary of Defence James Mattis in Kabul.
Turnbull
told Mattis that Australia will continue to work alongside the US, NATO
and Afghanistan in encouraging security institutions in that country,
said The Australian newspaper.
Turnbull's visit comes shortly
after the death of 138 soldiers as a result of a Taliban attack on April
21 at a military base in northern Afghanistan, one of the worst
terrorism strikes on the country's army.
Australia has deployed
270 members of its armed forces in Afghanistan for assistance and
training tasks, and some 780 in Iraq and Syria to help collaborate in
airstrikes.
Since 2002, 42 Australian soldiers have died in Afghanistan and two in Iraq.
"This
trip was not just an occasion to celebrate Anzac Day with Australians
(and New Zealanders) who are serving on the front lines, it was an
invaluable opportunity to assess the progress of the wars in Iraq, Syria
and Afghanistan," Turnbull said in a statement.
Australia and
New Zealand on Tuesday commemorate Anzac Day in remembrance of when the
Allied troops landed in Gallipoli, Turkey, on April 25, 1915 during the
First World War, where over 26,000 of their soldiers died in combat and
many more were wounded.
Although the Gallipoli campaign was a
failure, Australia and New Zealand consider it as an important moment in
which both countries forged their true national spirit, uniting the
entire population in the war effort.
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