'Iraq close to security agreement with US'
The United States and Iraq are nearing an accord which could pave the way for large-scale US troop withdrawals by 2011, Iraq's foreign minister said Saturday.
"We have a single text, a final draft" of a US-Iraqi security agreement, Hoshyar Zebari told journalists on the sidelines of an international security conference in Geneva.
"It is up to the political leadership now to make a political decision," he said, adding that the talks had been hard, but friendly and cooperative.
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