Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterU.N. Iraq mandate renewed; Baghdad wants more U.N. help (Reuters)
Published 8/7/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council voted
on Thursday to keep the United Nations mission in Iraq for
another year, as Baghdad urged the world body to do more to
help it transform into a functioning democracy.
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