Prime minster Gordon Brown arrival, press conference and answering questions from journalists

Prime minster Gordon Brown arrival, press conference and answering questions from journalists; - So what we propose to do over these next few months is to move from a situation where we had a combat role to one where we have an overwatch role; where the Iraqis increasingly take over, with the 30,000 that they have, responsibility for their own security; and with us, as the British, having an overwatch so that we maintain a facility for re-intervention if necessary, but at the same time we play a greater role in training future security forces in Iraq - I believe that within the next two months we can move to provincial control, that is the Iraqis taking responsibility for their own security in the whole of Basra / I believe that the 30,000 security forces that have been trained up are capable of discharging these responsibilities for security, and that allows us to make other decisions about British troops / And I believe that by the end of the year the British forces, which have been 5,500, can be reduced to 4,500, and that by the end of the year, indeed by Christmas, 1,000 of our troops can be brought back to the UK and to other purposes - The onus is, of course, on the Iraqi people and on the Iraqi security forces to prove that they can manage their own security / The final decisions will be taken based on what happens on the ground / But I'm reassured by the numbers of Iraqi security forces that now exist that we have completed a task, and are completing it now, where we have had a combat role, and that the Iraqi forces themselves can take responsibility over time for their own security / Let me just add that we will do everything that we can to discharge our continuing duty, not just to the Iraqi people, but to the United Nations and the obligations we've made to the international community in successive resolutions, and I believe that additional resolutions will come forward to repeat that responsibility that the whole world accepts for the democracy of ...
Prime minster Gordon Brown arrival, press conference and answering questions from journalists; - So what we propose to do over these next few months is to move from a situation where we had a combat role to one where we have an overwatch role; where the Iraqis increasingly take over, with the 30,000 that they have, responsibility for their own security; and with us, as the British, having an overwatch so that we maintain a facility for re-intervention if necessary, but at the same time we play a greater role in training future security forces in Iraq - I believe that within the next two months we can move to provincial control, that is the Iraqis taking responsibility for their own security in the whole of Basra / I believe that the 30,000 security forces that have been trained up are capable of discharging these responsibilities for security, and that allows us to make other decisions about British troops / And I believe that by the end of the year the British forces, which have been 5,500, can be reduced to 4,500, and that by the end of the year, indeed by Christmas, 1,000 of our troops can be brought back to the UK and to other purposes - The onus is, of course, on the Iraqi people and on the Iraqi security forces to prove that they can manage their own security / The final decisions will be taken based on what happens on the ground / But I'm reassured by the numbers of Iraqi security forces that now exist that we have completed a task, and are completing it now, where we have had a combat role, and that the Iraqi forces themselves can take responsibility over time for their own security / Let me just add that we will do everything that we can to discharge our continuing duty, not just to the Iraqi people, but to the United Nations and the obligations we've made to the international community in successive resolutions, and I believe that additional resolutions will come forward to repeat that responsibility that the whole world accepts for the democracy of ...
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Fecha de creación:
02 de octubre de 2007
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00:04:17:09
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Iraq
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