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U.S., coalition, and Iraqi forces have made substantial and durableprogress in providing security and stability for the Iraqi people;but security alone is an insufficient foundation for maintainingthe hard-fought successes achieved to date, and any assessmentshould be tempered by an understanding of the numerous economic,diplomatic, political, informational, rule of law, andcapacity-building challenges the Iraqis must still address.
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An Iraqi government delegation visited NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the thirty-nation military bloc’s continued role in the Middle East nation.
In what is perhaps an unprecedentedly high-level visit, Iraq’s prime minister, defense minister and foreign minister – Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Jumaah Saadoon and Fuad Hussein, respectively – met with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The foreign minister was at NATO headquarters this March as well.
Although the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and Britain in 2003 was not a NATO operation, the military alliance became involved immediately afterward in assisting Poland to administer one of four zones the occupation forces divided the nation into: the South Central or South Center zone.