Brussels, 12/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - Catherine Ashton has welcomed progress in the formation of a new government in Iraq, more than seven months after the general elections in March. In a statement published on 12 November, she says that the “election yesterday of Osama Nejefi as the president of the Iraqi parliament, and of Jalal Talabani as President of Iraq, is an important moment in the country's democratic process”. President Talabani has asked Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki to...