U.S. State Dept Finishes Review of Iraq Aid Plan
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The State Department finished an intensive review this week on how best to spend &#36;18.4 billion in U.S. aid to Iraq and may shift focus to smaller-scale projects, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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TOKYO: Donors to Iraq&#39;s reconstruction are examining billions of dollars in aid pledges that have gone mostly unused amid an insurgency, as the interim government appealed for firmer world support.
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Foreign minister to remind the US of its responsibility to help build Iraqi forces.
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WASHINGTON -- Less than 7 percent of the $18.4 billion that Congress approved last year to rebuild Iraq has been spent, the Bush administration said yesterday in its latest report on progress there.
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The United States, Iran and Iraq have agreed to set up a security subcommittee to carry forward talks on restoring stability in Iraq, the U.S. envoy said Tuesday at the end of a second round of groundbreaking talks with his Iranian counterpart.
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The US State Department Wednesday lauded Japan&#39;s decision to stay in Iraq despite threats a kidnapped Japanese citizen will be killed unless it withdraws.
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A new think tank run by former U.S. defense officials has published a detailed plan that would have the United States withdraw from Iraq in phases, beginning next month and ending in 2012.
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A Bush administration report on Iraq shows satisfactory progress on eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory progress on another eight and mixed results on the other two
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IRBIL, Iraq -- Two weeks after the United States launched an ambitious security plan for Iraq, then-U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad issued an enthusiastic announcement about progress toward an Iraqi oil law, a key American goal.
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The United States has confidence in UN Secretary General Kofi Annan but wants an investigation into the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq completed, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday.
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The Iraqi government has made mixed progress in meeting political and security goals, a U.S. official said on Thursday citing a report that may add to rising calls for a change of course in the unpopular war.
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Developments concerning Iraq on Thursday:
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President Bush opened a round of consultations on Iraq today by reviewing political and diplomatic options with senior State Department officials as part of what he said was an effort to find "a new way forward" in the war-ravaged country.
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WASHINGTON -- A State Department assessment of how the agency will direct almost $18 billion in unspent aid to rebuild Iraq is running about a month behind schedule, frustrating at least one key member of Congress already upset by the slow pace of reconstruction spending.
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The Bush administration formally canceled Iraq&#39;s $4.1 billion debt to the United States on Friday and urged others to do the same to help the country rebuild.
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Condoleezza Rice was confirmed as secretary of state on Wednesday as a large majority of senators swept aside objections from some Democrats that she be held accountable for mistakes in the Iraq war.
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Developments concerning Iraq on Monday.