Vice President and Iraqi Prime Minister Discussed Regional Security and the Americans Killed in Libya
Vice President Biden today called Iraqi Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss a range of topics, including the recent
high-level U.S. delegations to Iraq led by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff General Dempsey, Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns and others.
The Vice President and the Prime Minister addressed issues of regional
security, including the need to prevent any state from taking advantage of
Iraq’s territory or air space to send weapons to Syria.
Vice
President Biden commended Prime Minister Maliki’s recent leadership, and that of his
counterparts in the Kurdistan Regional Government, in seeking compromise to
develop Iraq’s energy industry so that all of Iraq’s citizens may share in its
benefits.
The Prime Minister expressed condolences on the recent killing of
four Americans in Libya. Both leaders reaffirmed that the long-term, strategic
partnership between the U.S. and Iraq is an important source of stability in
the region.
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