Speaking at a foreign policy assessment meeting for 2019, he said that the Iraqi parliament's resolution calling on the government to expel foreign troops from the country was not binding

Underlining that the killing of Suleimani has been a serious risk to the peace of our region, he said: "We will continue to make efforts with other countries to reduce tensions."

In an extraordinary parliamentary session on Sunday, Iraqi parliament called on the government to expel all foreign troops from the country and to cancel its request for assistance from the US-led coalition.

The Iraqi parliament resolution comes after Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds force, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the senior commander of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi force, and eight others were killed on Friday in a U.S. drone attack outside Baghdad International Airport. (ILKHA)