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ndi has been in iraq since 2003. i was part of the first trip, two of us that went, and us soon as things settled down in 2003 and one of the connections with the time and this is going to some crazy but it's a true story. and it shows you i think how naive many of us were about iraq, myself and deputy director and in arab-american woman decided to go to iraq. we had no idea how we would get there, we were going to do but we knew we would hitch a ride with a u.n. plan, didn't have any idea or affiliation but hop on the plane. but we didn't think what we arrived when we arrived. we negative the military hangars and the only cars for the cars the u.n. had a sweetheart in those cars and they brought us to the u.n. office, it was the one that was eventually blown up. but people just assume we are you in employees and they fed us and tried to put this into an orientation and we sat there afraid to say we didn't work for the u.n. because then they thought we would be imposters was soon as there was a coffee break we set in

uzbek as the news has been been, and i am the regional director for ndi iraq is in the middle. under most measures it compares favorably if not ahead and iraq their hundreds of political parties. i don't know if that is good but there is a competitive political system and almost anyone that is interested kid joined the party to join a political life. there have them successful local elections and match -- national elections. also, i'll probably say many problems and not keep qualifying because i don't want it to sound as if i am naive but there are many problems, however a surprising degree of freedom of expression and iraq. unlike many neighbors it is possible to hold in different opinions and expressed those opinions through the media or writing articles, a wide degree of freedom of expression. her was a quota system in the last election that led 25% of the parliament seeds for women. it is imperfect with the criticism and i suppose we could wonder if iraqis were entirely serious but it happened prick the we know from experience including morocco and jordan and kuwait, once w

and with ngos like ndi.he whole challenge of course is one that iraqis fear for developing their own country. but the effectiveness engage with the international committee, it did with the u.n. system i think is one of the key considerations. so in our efforts to convey the information and impressions to the officials in washington, nothing else more than bringing the best and brightest and most experienced undp people to town to talk to audiences like us, to meet officials as we're doing both over the course of two days, to reengage with john and les, and i just want to express our personal things to all three of you for helping us capture that message. thank you. and thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> up next on c-span to the president of the new york federal reserve bank talks about the state of the economy. >> the president of the new york federal reserve bank recently gave a talk about

and the state department and ngo's like ndi. whole challenge, of course, is one that iraqis bear for developing their own country, but the effectiveness of engagement with the international community and particularly the u.n. system is one of the key considerations, so if our efforts to convey the information and impressions to the officials in washington, nothing helps more than to bring the most experienced undp people to town to talk to audiences like this and meet officials as we're doing over the course of two days to reengage with john and les, and i just want to thank all three of you for helping us capture that messaging. thank you, and thank you, john. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> now a conference focusing on the u.s. and world chi. this one world event was provided by global insight, an industry analysis company, that uses economic modeling and forecasting. >> i can promise you that this is really going to be the high light of today. this is the real show. we've jokingly called with

but i wanted to ask the ndi question for the middle east. if i'm a nondemocracy middle east and looking at what's going on in iraq, why should i be persuaded that a democratic system is worth the effort? why should i pragmatically, even, consider going that route in my own political development? what do you take away from the iraq experience to date? >> well, first i think it's important to be reminded that the idea of iraq as a democracy was something that sort of developed after the fact. i spent a lot of time having to defend this notion that democracy is something that's imposed on people. and i would say where does that come from? the united states tried to impose democracy on iraq and that was sort of an after the fact justification. i don't think that was ever the real reason for invading iraq. i think it was in the aftermath of the invasion, for organizations like ndi, it seemed like we should along with many others, do what we could to help iraq become a well governed country. and i would argue that being democratically governed, ev

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