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Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship

The Government have chosen as the title of the debate Britain's ““future strategic relationship”” with Iraq. Will the Secretary of State confirm that in fact we will not have a strategic relationship with Iraq? A strategic relationship would normally imply an ongoing defence commitment or something comparable. There will be some support for naval training, but otherwise we hope that our relationship will be rather like those that we have with other countries in the region, such as Jordan and Egypt. Surely the use of the term ““strategic relationship”” simply does not describe what will exist after next June.