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Article: Iraq prime minister calls for debt relief at UN conference
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- May 29, 2008
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Iraq's prime minister called Thursday for neighboring countries to forgive debts and war reparations that he said hindered his nation's recovery despite a reduction in violence.
Opening a U.N. conference on Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said his government had kept the country from descending into the "abyss of civil war" but needs to shed the burden of reparations and debt in order to move forward with reconstruction and development.
"Iraq has achieved major success in the battle against terrorism with the support of the international community," al-Maliki said in Arabic.
Iraq has at least $67 billion in foreign debt _ most incurred during the ...