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French PM, corporate heads to meet with Iraqi leadership
French Prime Minister François Fillon (pictured) and Finance Minister Christine Lagarde are leading a delegation of French business leaders to Iraq for talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani.
AFP - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday with a delegation of officials and business leaders, an AFP journalist reported.
He was expected to meet his Iraqi counterpart, Nuri al-Maliki, before travelling to Sulaimaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan to meet President Jalal Talabani.
Several agreements are expected to be signed during the visit, Fillon's office said.
The delegation includes Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and the heads of the Total oil company, Lafarge building materials group and European aerospace giant EADS among others.
Maliki visited Paris in May, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Iraq in February.
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Good Luck with the Kurds...
The government parties KDP and PUK represent a mixture of a tribal confederation and clientèle party machinery which has covered the region with a financial patronage system. All these favourites must be supplied with positions in or related to the government. The consequence is an unbelievably blown up bureaucracy.