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09-04-2007, 07:45 AM
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has rejected claims that there is a split between UK and US policy on Iraq, saying both are on the "same path". On Monday 550 UK soldiers completed a withdrawal from central Basra to join 5,000 troops at an airbase outside the city, taking up an "overwatch" role.
Mr Brown said the pull-out was not a defeat and insisted there was no division between UK and US policy.
He said both sides wanted the Iraqis to be responsible for their own security.
Mr Brown, speaking at his second prime ministerial news briefing, was asked if he and President Bush still shared the same vision for the future of Iraq.
He replied: "We are on exactly the same path that I have set out, which is that we will continue to discharge our obligations to the Iraqi people, that we support their democracy, and we will discharge our obligations to the international community.
"Please do not forget that this is recognised in international resolutions agreed in the United Nations on behalf of the whole world community.
"Our policy is exactly the same: to make it possible for the Iraqi people to be responsible for their own security."
From: BBC
Mr Brown said the pull-out was not a defeat and insisted there was no division between UK and US policy.
He said both sides wanted the Iraqis to be responsible for their own security.
Mr Brown, speaking at his second prime ministerial news briefing, was asked if he and President Bush still shared the same vision for the future of Iraq.
He replied: "We are on exactly the same path that I have set out, which is that we will continue to discharge our obligations to the Iraqi people, that we support their democracy, and we will discharge our obligations to the international community.
"Please do not forget that this is recognised in international resolutions agreed in the United Nations on behalf of the whole world community.
"Our policy is exactly the same: to make it possible for the Iraqi people to be responsible for their own security."
From: BBC