Iraq’s Foreign Minister discusses training of Iraqi security forces with NATO delegation

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq ’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, has discussed with a visiting NATO delegation in Baghdad on Monday the training of the Iraqi security forces, according to the Foreign Ministry’s electronic site on Tuesday.   “The Foreign Minister had received on Monday NATO’s Assistant Secretary-General for General Operations, Martin Howard, the Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces for Rehabilitation & Training and NATO’s Special Representative for Central Asian States,” the site reported.   It said that the conferees discussed in the meeting “NATO’s plans and programs in Iraq, especially the rehabilitation and training of the Iraqi Security Forces, as well as the future relations and necessity to carry out a political dialogue between Iraq and the NATO.”   The NATO had considered that Iraq “was no longer considered as a war or a battle zone, after the Iraqi government’s achievement of a clear progress on the field of security and stability.”   The meeting, the site added, was attended by the Iraqi Foreign Minister’s Advisor, the Chairman of its Europe’s Department and Iraq ’s Ambassador to Brussels .   SKH (IT)     530