NATO envoys strike tentative deal on Iraq training

NATO nations' ambassadors struck a tentative deal on an agreement late tonight to help the interim Iraqi government train its…

NATO nations' ambassadors struck a tentative deal on an agreement late tonight to help the interim Iraqi government train its security forces after hours of wrangling over the wording, diplomats said.

"We've agreed it, we've agreed on it tentatively," one diplomat said.

He said members of the 26-nation alliance would have until tomorrow morning to raise objections, after which time the wording of a statement to be released at a NATO summit in Istanbul on Monday and Tuesday would be deemed to have been adopted.

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