Iraq asks world to keep promises on aid

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http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=79707

Iraq asks world to keep promises on aid

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:19:52 PM ET

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Mark John

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iraq wants the world to deliver promised aid faster to help combat instability, while acknowledging that it must clean up its own act by curbing "disastrous" corruption, Iraqi officials said on Tuesday.

"The consequences of failure in Iraq will go far beyond Iraq itself. That's why the stakes are so high," Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told NATO ambassadors in Brussels on the eve of a conference organized by the United States and European Union.

He said Baghdad saw the conference as a way to secure the world's engagement in stabilising and reconstructing Iraq.

The idea of the meeting came after President Bush visited Brussels in February, when France and Germany, opponents of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003, promised help to train Iraqi security forces.

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[Oversea Visitor]

1. Need Aid from World

US leave Iraq then World maybe will help
War illegal
Help now very bad
All money just get stolen x(

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2. How many Iraqis, men ,women, children elderly have been....

....killed or died as the result of the Iraq War to date? Would a figure of 500,000 Iraqi persons be close? Is it possible that the number is really much higher from the very first hostile actions by American and coalition forces even before the official invasion in March 2003?