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| Berlin congratulates Iraqi interim government |
| 2004-06-29 |
| German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder congratulated the Iraqi interim government Monday on assuming power in Baghdad. A government spokesman said the German charge d’affaires in Baghdad, Bernd Erbel, had handed interim Premier Iyad Allawi a congratulatory telegram from Schroeder. At the foreign ministry in Berlin, a spokeswoman said that for Iraq, the power handover was "an important step on the road back to the circle of independent nations". |
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