A stabilizing representative government ... normalizing relationships with its neighbors ... violence receding ... what's not to like about that?BAGHDAD, July 6 (VOI) – The United Arab Emirates cabinet decided in a session on Sunday to appoint an ambassador in the Iraq capital Baghdad, a diplomatic source in the UAE said.
"The cabinet approved in a session on Sunday the appointment of Abdullah Ibrahim al-Shahi, the current envoy to India, as UAE ambassador in Baghdad," the Agence France Presse (AFP) quoted the source, who preferred not to have his name mentioned, as saying.
The step comes one month after UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan's visit to Baghdad, the first ever by a Gulf official at this level since the fall of the former regime in 2003.
Iraqi Prime Minister on Sunday said canceling Iraq's debts due for the UAE would improve his country's economy and help stabilize security.
Over at icasualties.org it took them days before they posted a box for coalition deaths in July. The first death was not combat related and took place on Sunday (July 7, though the story at Aswat Aliraq was time stamped July 6).
Aswat Aliraq, the Iraqi newspaper I use to keep abreast of Iraqi news, is planning to launch a new Web site. It remains to be seen how that will affect existing hotlinks.
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