[applause] >> i'd like to ask ambassador beth jones to come forward.the format today will be an introduction , heavy, please. the format will be an introduction of the prime minister i ambassador beth jones, and then the prime minister will speak, and then we'll sit into question. so the audience i think already knows this. if you have questions, perhaps you've already written them out. obviously, what not have time for a great number of questions that hopefully the prime minister will find the questions interesting. hopefully not too prerogative, and with that let me turn it over to beth jones. >> thank you very much. thank you welcome. welcome to the delegation some of my longtime associate the especially it's wonderful to be with secretary albright. it's wonderful to be a usip especially for this extraordinary event. i want to thank usip and commend jim marshall on his leadership in all the great work that has ideas been involved with since he took over as president last year, and, of course, the work that usip is done for so long in iraq. today i'm

[applause] >> i would like to ask beth jones to come forward.the format today will be an introduction of the prime minister by ambassador beth jones. then the prime minister will speak. and then sit and take questions. the audience already knows this. if you have questions, perhaps he of written them out, we are not going to have time for a great number of questions, but hopefully the prime minister will find questions interesting. with that, libby turn it over. >> thank you very much. welcome to the delegation. especially welcome, it is great to be here with secretary albright. especially for this extraordinary event. i want to thank u.s. ip on his leadership since he took over last year, and the work that u.s. ip has done for so long in iraq. i am honored to introduce nouri al-maliki, prime minister of the republic of iraq. he faces the daunting challenges iraq continues to face. the prime minister will be meeting with president obama and vice president biden to strengthen ties between our nations. they will discuss how we can help iraq confro

i also want to give my thanks to ambassador beth jones for her warm words, and i want to extend to the u.s. ip my greetings and gratitude for their words. -- because of the development of the mechanism and the new techniques used by terrorists who undermine interests and institutions in all countries. we are here in a strategic important institute. i want to thank you for allowing me to be here. i want to discuss the relationship between iraq and the united states. we cooperated with our partners, and fight terrorist. this allows us to win over terrorist in iraq. all of the people of iraq were victims of the terrorist attacks led by al qaeda and the remnants of the regime in iraq. we are starting a new round of reconstruction after defeating al qaeda, who at some point stop stopped explosive in our resources. at some point, life came back to iraq. the economy started recovering. the construction developed. the security and economic level, and the political level, despite a diss balance we witnessed. we were able to defeat al qaeda, and this brought life and union back to the rack. why

i also want to give my thanks to mbassador beth jones for her warm words, and i want to extend to the u.s. my greetings and gratitude for their words. ecause of the development of he mechanism and the new techniques used by terrorists who undermine interests and institutions in all countries. we are here in a strategic important institute. i want to thank you for allowing me to be here. i want to discuss the relationship between iraq and the united states. we cooperated with our partners, and fight terrorist. this allows us to win over terrorist in iraq. all of the people of iraq were victims of the terrorist attacks led by al qaeda and the remnants of the regime in iraq. we are starting a new round of reconstruction after defeating l qaeda, who at some point stopped explosive in our resources. at some point, life came back to iraq. the economy started recovering. the construction developed. the security and economic level, and the political level, despite a disbalance we witnessed. we were able to defeat al qaeda, nd this brought life and union back to iraq. why do we see what we are

i also want to give my thanks to ambassador beth jones for her warm words, and i want to extend to theusip my greetings and gratitude for their words. -- because of the development of the mechanism and the new techniques used by terrorists who undermine interests and institutions in all countries. we are here in a strategic important institute. i want to thank you for allowing me to be here. i want to stress the bilateral relationship that links the united states with iraq. we cooperated with our partners, and shed blood together while fighting terrorists. this allows us to win over terrorists in iraq. we give lug together, american soldiers and iraqi soldiers. all of the people of iraq were victims of the terrorist attacks led by al qaeda and the remnants of the former regime in iraq. we are starting a new round of reconstruction after defeating al qaeda, who at some point stop stopped explosive in our resources. -- at some point stopped development in exploiting our rich resources and stopped the assistance to iraq. nonetheless, our old exports, our budget increased. the economy star