Paris holds out over NATO training

France was holding out, 28 July 2004, over plans to send NATO training forces to Iraq in a further sign that the wounds left by the 2003 war had not fully healed.

NATO: NATO’s relations with Iraq http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_88247.htm

http://www.nato.int/docu/update/2004/06-june/e0629b.htm http://www.nato.int/docu/update/2004/06-june/e0629b.htm

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