Germany Says Eager to Help Build Iraq Institutions
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Germany is willing to help Iraq's  new government set up ministries and write a new constitution  following elections last weekend, German Interior Minister Otto  Schily said on Thursday.
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Germany&#39;s interior minister said it was time to put aside differences with the United States over Iraq and look to the future as President Bush won a second term, but another
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A top Iraqi official called for partnerships with international companies to boost his country's oil industry on Sunday, saying Iraq's emergence as a "secure petro-democracy" could quell rampant sectarian violence.
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Germany and the United States have agreed on a proposal to write off as much as 80 percent of Iraq&#39;s debt, Germany&#39;s finance minister said Saturday, following a months-long US push for debt forgiveness.
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The German government has reiterated its opposition to sending troops to Iraq, after a top German official suggested otherwise. A spokesman for German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said the German leader told
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NEW DELHI: Germany on Thursday said it would support India's candidature for permanent seat in the United Nation Security Council and also forge good economic and cultural ties between the two countries.
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Germany will likely contribute more than 1,200 service personnel to the U.N. peacekeeping force for Lebanon, its defense minister said in remarks published Thursday.
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Germany&#39;s defense minister suggested Wednesday that his country might one day send troops to Iraq, but Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder played down those remarks and said it would not happen.
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The proposed sale to Iraq&#39;s new armed forces of 20 Fuchs armored personnel carriers and 100 light military trucks and Blair&#39;s speech at his party&#39;s conference dominated German editorials on Wednesday.
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An international conference on Iraq will give the interim government in the war-torn country full support to continue the political process, reports say.
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COLOMBO: Berlin is ready to promote tourism and push for debt relief and free access to European markets to help tsunami-battered Sri Lanka get back on its feet, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said on ...
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(InfoWorld) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on politicians, business leaders, and researchers to cooperate more closely in helping the country secure a leading position in the global IT sector and pledged money to support collaborative efforts. Speaking at Germany's first-ever IT summit on Monday, Merkel said communications and telecommunications companies need to hook up with the country's traditional heavyweights such as the automotive and chemical sectors and collaborate more intensively in the area of software engineering. Already today more than half of the innovations in the automobile industry are based on software. The Chancellor pledged â¬1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) in grants over the next three years to support innovation in Germany's IT sector. The funds will come from the federal government's â¬15 billion high-tech investment program approved earlier this year. But Merkel was quick to add that in the future, industry grants should be carefully targeted and not simply "poured out of a watering can." Germany has seen its strong tradition of technological innovation steadily wane over the years, due in part to high labor costs that have deterred investment and declining university standards that have caused a brain drain. The country claims a number of IT achievements, including the Zuse, seen by some as the first freely programmable computer, and the MP3 audio compression algorithm. SAP Chief Executive OfficerÂ Henning Kagermann was blunt in his assessment of Germany's IT standing. Although the communications and telecommunications sectors combined employ around 800,000 people and generate annual revenue of around â¬150 billion, making it the country's largest industrial sector, "in a global comparison, we are not a leader and, even worse, we are falling behind," he said. In addition to funds, the government initiative calls for immigration policies designed to attract talented researchers from around the world, and grants to keep gifted students in the country.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Monday he is confident of winning Germans over to his reform plans and rebuilding his party's support after avoiding major new losses in local elections in a traditional ...
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Japan hopes new pledges to rebuild Iraq will emerge as international donors meet in Tokyo from Wednesday, but it sees broader participation in stabilizing the war-torn country as even more important than fresh funds.
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Meeting with visiting here Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is ready to support all Iraqi steps aimed at restoring order
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The Bundestag, or lower chamber of the German parliament, will host a high-level conference on German-Arab relations next month, it was announced Tuesday.
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European Union leaders gave Iraq assurances of "strong support" in a draft statement Friday and said they would offer Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi the prospect of aid and a special trade deal.