Iraq PM confident about polls
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister has said he&#39;s confident only a small number of people will boycott the January 30 elections.
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People across the Middle East voiced cautious optimism about Iraq's elections Sunday, saying they send a strong message that insurgents have been unsuccessful in scuttling the landmark poll, but also expressing concern that the chaos will not allow for a truly representative result.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday elections would be held on schedule in January despite a surge in violence and more than a score of hostages under threat of death from insurgents.
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The Americans are saying it, the British Government is saying it and so too is Iyad Allawi. Iraqis will go to the polls by the end of January, come what may.
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Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has vowed that elections will go ahead as scheduled in January, even if some Iraqis are unable to vote.
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PARIS : Iraq&#39;s elections will go ahead as scheduled in January even if some Iraqis are unable to vote due to the security situation in the country, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published in the several western daily newspapers.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi vowed to stick to plans to hold an election in January 2005 even though the US and Britain are struggling to keep order in the nation.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says elections will go ahead as scheduled in January despite unrelenting violence. Allawi spoke after meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who described
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise first visit to Baghdad Tuesday to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for elections scheduled for January.
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Elections in Iraq will go ahead in January as planned, the leaders of Britain and Iraq said on Sunday, brushing aside fears that violence will scupper them.
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Despite the deteriorated security conditions, the British prime minister Tony Blair and the Iraqi interim prime minister Eyad Allawi stressed in a joint press conference in Baghdad that the Iraqi elections will be carried out in its set date scheduled on
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The interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi insisted that Iraq's looming elections would put an end to the country's bloody violence.
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BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki yesterday shrugged off US doubts about his government's military and political progress, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave "any time they want."
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British PM in Baghdad to discuss Iraqâs January elections with Allawi as violence shows no signs of abating in Iraq. By Peter Walker - BAGHDAD.
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success, could point to the government&#39;s ability to organise nationwide polls by the end of January. The interim government has vowed to crack down on insurgents and pacify Iraq before the January election.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on a flying visit to Baghdad, has praised Iraqi election officials as &quot;heroes&quot; and vowed that a vote would take place as scheduled next month.
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Iraq s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi met on Sunday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, for talks likely to be dominated by the need to improve security before Iraq s January elections.