EU Ready to Discuss Increased Aid for Iraq

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The Dutch foreign minister said Sunday that improved security in Iraq has opened the way for the European Union to discuss stepped up reconstruction efforts -- even as his Iraqi counterpart conceded that security here remains precarious.

"Now that the security conditions have improved, it is easier to provide this aid," Foreign Minister Ben Bot, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said on a one-day visit to Baghdad.

He said a peace agreement earlier this week that ended three weeks of fighting in the holy city of Najaf, and ongoing talks between Iraq and its neighbors about how to curb the influx of foreign fighters has laid the groundwork for a better security environment.

However, fierce fighting between coalition forces and Iraqi insurgents continues unabated in many parts of the country, including the capital, while the recent killing of an Italian journalist and the kidnapping of two French reporters underscored the risks for foreigners working in Iraq.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-eu,0,7649806.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

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1. WTF

Improved security?

OK, Dutch Governement is part of the Coalition of Idiots, but still...

Gladly, that Dutch FM does not speek with the mouth of EU, and he can insist on his readiness to discuss any thing he want's, but... ain't gonna happen. It's a total warzone and Allawi deserves no help.