Hoon meets soldiers and officials in flying visit to Iraq
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BRITISH Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon arrived in the southern Iraqi city of Basra today for talks with Iraqi and British officials.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is meeting senior German officials in Berlin - his first visit to the country since taking office six months ago.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has arrived at a military air base in the Iraqi city of Mosul on a surprise Christmas Eve visit.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived in Iraq on Friday morning for a daylong visit to review Iraq security forces and meet with Iraqi and American leaders.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Oct 05 (PID) - A four member defense delegation, led by Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, Secretary of State for Defense of United Kingdom will arrive tomorrow (5-10-04) on two days visit to Pakistan.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a surprise visit to press Iraqi leaders to resolve their differences and ease raging sectarian violence that has killed thousands.
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Blair flew into the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning on a British military transport plane from Jordan. He took a helicopter to the city center for talks with interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
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Geoff Hoon is to make a Commons statement on proposals to put some troops under US command in Iraq.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrives in Iraq for a visit as controversy goes on over UK deployments.
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Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, visiting troops in Iraq, says he sees no reason to delay next month&#39;s election as preparations are on track.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  flew into northern Iraq before dawn on Friday to make a  personal appraisal of the training of Iraqi security forces and  talk with his commanders.
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MOSUL, Iraq : US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld paid a surprise visit to US troops in Mosul, northern Iraq early on Friday, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Iraq on Tuesday for meetings with the Iraqi government, which last week passed the first in a series of long-awaited laws aimed at reconciling Iraqis, officials said.
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He made a surprise visit to the US military base that was attacked in Mosul Tuesday. Meanwhile, security has increased at some US bases in Iraq.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun made  a surprise visit to Iraq Wednesday to meet his country's troops  and told them to focus on their reconstruction work -- a nod to  his concern they might get dragged into a combat role.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrives in Iraq for a surprise visit as controversy goes on over UK deployments.
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Defense Minister Geoff Hoon will make a statement to the House of Commons on Monday about British troop deployments in Iraq, amid reports that Britain is considering sending some 600 soldiers to bolster US operations near Baghdad.