Iranian, Kuwaiti Foreign Ministers Study Situation in Iraq--IRNA

[Gloria]

New World Media Watch up now at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical
Tomorrow at Buzzflash.com

(Note: the notion of regional consultation was brought up today by Wes Clark on Meet the Press)

2//Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran August 28, 2005

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0508281582194253.htm



IRANIAN, KUWAITI FOREIGN MINISTERS STUDY SITUATION IN IRAQ



Tehran, Aug 28, IRNA--Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Muhammad Sabah al-Salim as-Sabah on Sunday held talks on current situation in neighboring Iraq and piping drinking water from Iran to Kuwait.



The two foreign ministers also exchanged views on developments on the oil market and cooperation within Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).



They emphasized establishment of security in Iraq with the Kuwaiti foreign minister saying that foreign ministers of Iraqi neighboring states would hold a meeting to study ways to help restore security to Iraq.


SNIP



He said that long presence of foreign troops in Iraq will not help stability of the country.

"The neighboring states should hold consultations for a collective decision on regional security and cooperate to this end," Mottaki said.



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[Warren Stupidity]

1. I know: lets just turn it over to them.

Seriously. Let Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait figure it out. The nations with a real vested interest in stability in the region are the neighbors of the former state of Iraq. We should hand it over to them. Everything except the bill: that we should still pay. Have our brilliant leaders in the War Party gotten it through their thick skulls yet that it is the presence of a occupying army of foreign heathens that is the major cause for instability?

[Maggie_May]

2. Don't you just love of Iran works

I do agree with you if Iraq will every be independent it will be without us. The help from the other Middle East Nations will bring stability to Iraq. There is one problem the Bush administration does not want that. I still think they want that oil.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Oh I agree completely.

Everything the administration has done seems directed at justifying our perpetual military presence in those 14 huge permanent military bases we have built or are building in Iraq.

However, the point is to make it very difficult for them to maintain the fiction that they are doing anything other than squatting on the 2nd largest cheap oil reserve on the planet with a sizeable military force, and a short march away from the no 1 cheap oil reserve and the no 3 cheap oil reserve. Eventually it will sink into the thick skulls of even the most ardent supporters of this vile nonsense that they are giving up their children for oil.