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| Iraq |
| State Dept. Weekly Report on Iraq |
| 2006-12-01 |
| Some bad news, this week. Still, there's this: The United Nations unanimously approved a resolution extending the mandate of the 160,000-strong multi-national force in Iraq for a year. And this: Iraq and Kuwait agreed to allow Kuwait to complete the building of a border fence Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, two middle-eastern countries can agree on controlling their borders! and pay compensation to Iraqi farmers. The resolution demarcated the land border between the two nations and granted Kuwait some territory that had previously been held by Iraq and called for the creation of a no-man zone on both sides of the border, causing some Iraqi farmers living in the border zone to evacuate. Iraq and Kuwait have agreed to equally share the cost of the fences yearly maintenance, estimated at $3 million a year. Irony meter twitching? And this is interesting: Indonesia's foreign minister said that his country would be willing to send peacekeepers to Iraq and would encourage other Muslim countries to do the same. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told President Bush that any long-term solution to the conflict in Iraq should include more countries than are currently involved. |
| Posted by:Bobby |