Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Rick Barton, cordirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by Reuters, "U.S., Iran and Arab Neighbors to meet on Iraq."
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Rick Barton, cordirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by Reuters, "U.S., Iran and Arab Neighbors to meet on Iraq."
The United States will prod Sunni Arab states to offer more support to the Iraqi government at a conference in Sweden this week as a way of countering the growing influence of non-Arab Iran in Iraq.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will chair the conference on Thursday, aimed at assessing progress in implementing a plan adopted at a meeting in Egypt last year to help Iraq rebuild after five years of war. [...]
"Clearly this kind of meeting has some potential but it probably should not be overstated," said Rick Barton, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, adding debt relief and distribution of oil funds would be high on the agenda.
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