Delhi reopens diplomacy with Baghdad
In the first contact with the new Iraqi government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy for West Asia, CR Gharekhan on Monday met Iraqi PM Ibrahim Al Jaafari and offered help in reconstruction of the war-ravaged country and in drafting of its new Constitution.
At a 40-minute meeting, Gharek-han handed over a personal letter from the PM citing India's commitment to cooperate with Iraq in its task of national reconstruction.
Gharekhan, on a three-day visit, suggested that Iraq could send a team to Delhi to study the Indian Constitution and talk to Constitutional experts there.
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