In February 2014 the United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to reopen new negotiations over the agreement on the archive return to Iraq. In May of the same year, the governments of the United States and Iraq had reached an agreement that most of the items of the archive would remain in the United States until September 2018.[1][4] In September 2017, the State Department said it would not seek to further extend the agreement,[4] but in July 2018 reversed course and announced that it would work with the Iraqi government to delay the return of the archive.[5]