DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iraq will seek critical financial support from American, European and Arab governments in a donor conference Sunday in the Emirates capital Abu Dhabi, the United Nations said on Thursday. The UN and organizations including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will attend the one-day meeting, in which Iraq is expected to outline economic reforms it will make in exchange for pledges of economic support for the embattled government.The meetings are part of the US- and UN-backed International Compact for Iraq, a five-year plan to bring peace and development to violence-wracked Iraq, while ensuring the government has the funds to survive and carry out urgent economic reforms.
| And without infringing on Iraqi sovereignity as the Dhimmicrats have demanded. |
France and Germany, two countries that opposed the US-led Iraq war, are expected to participate. SundayÂ’s meeting will be followed by a high-level UN summit in New York on Sept. 18.
The compact was set up in June at the request of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Both he and Bush have called for more international help rebuilding IraqÂ’s economy, seen as key to reversing the countryÂ’s slide into chaos and civil war. The participants in the Compact include the United Arab Emirates, United States, Britain, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
A donorÂ’s conference for Iraq held in Madrid in 2003 raised pledges for $13.5 billion but so far only $3.5 billion to $4 billion of that amount has made its way to Iraq. Kimmitt said in July he would press donors to make good on their pledges.