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Christopher R. Hill arrived in Baghdad on April 24, 2009, to begin serving as America’s Ambassador to Iraq. Immediately prior to this assignment, Ambassador Hill was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, in which capacity he also was the lead U.S. negotiator at the ...
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Give Joe Biden MVP Award This Week on Obama Foreign Policy Team
The Washington Note —
... But the back story is that Joe Biden put forth a lot of hours last week coordinating the key players involved in the election law political mess.
Sources report that Biden spoke twice in the last seven days to Masoud Barzani, President of Iraqi Kurdistan. Kurdistan has been particularly paralyzed over the new election law because of ethic partisanship on how voting in Kurdistan should be structured.
In addition, US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill and Multi National Forces in Iraq Commander Ray Odierno have been in regular ...
Steve Clemons: Give Joe Biden MVP Award This Week on Obama Foreign Policy Team
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... But the back story is that Joe Biden put forth a lot of hours last week coordinating the key players involved in the election law political mess.
Sources report that Biden spoke twice in the last seven days to Masoud Barzani, President of Iraqi Kurdistan. Kurdistan has been particularly paralyzed over the new election law because of ethic partisanship on how voting in Kurdistan should be structured.
In addition, US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill and Multi National Forces in Iraq Commander Ray Odierno have been in regular ...
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