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Iran to host Iraq security conference
Iran is to host a regional conference on Iraq security this weekend and will likely call for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 July 7, 2006
Tehran: Iran is to host a regional conference on Iraq security this weekend and will likely call for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq.
Officials from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt, the Arab League and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference are expected to attend.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said security issues will be on the agenda during the event on Saturday and Sunday.
"A clear message will be sent from this meeting, in that these countries support the implementation of security in Iraq," he said.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said that US and other foreign troops should leave Iraq.
"Iraq's current security problems will only be resolved if the occupiers leave and the security issues are handed over to the Iraqi people and government," Khamenei said.
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