Finance, defense ministers discuss Iraqi army’s development

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Finance Minster, Baqer al-Zubaidi, discussed on Monday with Defense Minister, Abdulqader al-Ubeidi the Iraqi army’s condition and ways of developing it, according to a ministerial statement. “The meeting tackled ways of training Iraqi army and increase its capabilities to protect the country and to fight terrorism,” said the statement received by IraqiNews.com news agency. Al-Zubaidi asserted the importance of the appropriative investment of the defense ministry’s allocation within the 2010 general budget. SH (P)/SR 2