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Asked where the Government stood on Paul Wolfowitz, the PMOS said that we stood where we had stood for how ever long the issue had been going on. This was a matter for the World Bank, it was being resolved by the World Bank, and it remained a matter for the World Bank. The PMOS added that we were confident that World Bank resolve the issue.

When asked about the Chatham House report about Iraq, the PMOS said what had to be recognised with Iraq was that the people who speak for Iraq were not Chatham House or anybody else. The people who speak for Iraq were the democratically elected government of Iraq. They were representing the different communities within Iraq. Their views were represented by the President of Iraq, President Talibani that view was that British troops and US troops needed to stay in Iraq as he had said during his press conference recently. Secondly, however, we have to recognise that the democratic government has to represent all communities within Iraq, believing that they have a future say in Iraq, therefore there had to be emphasis not just on security, but on reconciliation on all sides. The other factor that needed to be recognised was that there were those who wanted to destroy democracy in Iraq and they were not interested in the twin approach of security on the one hand and the impetus to keep Iraq going forward.

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