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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11136

21 August 2014
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) iraq
European countries mobilise for Iraq

Brussels, 20/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 20 August, European countries continued to mobilise their support for Iraq: Germany said it was prepared to send weapons, France would like a conference on security and the Italian Prime Minister travelled to Baghdad and Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

The German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, announced that his country was ready to send weapons to the Kurds in Iraq as soon as possible. During a press conference, he...