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Iraq puts off talks
Talks scheduled for this month between Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan have been postponed at Baghdad's request, Annan's spokesman said Friday. Iraq sought the delay because it didn't want to distract attention from the crisis in the Middle East, Annan spokesman Fred Eckhard said. The talks had been scheduled for April 18-19 in New York City. No new date for the discussions was set immediately.
Is this something that's going around? Actually, it probably is. The Iraqis don't know how the Palestinian thing is going to play out. If it can be settled down, that's a real incentive to go into talk-talk-delay mode until it can be heated up again.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-04-13 |
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