{"id":77036,"date":"2018-01-08T13:17:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77036"},"modified":"2018-01-08T13:17:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T18:17:59","slug":"kuwait-to-host-iraq-reconstruction-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77036","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait to host Iraq reconstruction summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1221391\/middle-east\">Arab News<\/a>, in spite of the destruction that Hussein&#8217;s Iraq inflicted on Kuwait, the oil rich kingdom is taking a lead in rebuilding Iraq now that ISIS has been driven from the country and 5 million Iraqis have become refugees in their wake. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said that despite \u201cpast wounds\u201d \u2014 a reference to Iraq\u2019s 1990 invasion of Kuwait \u2014 his country had a \u201cmoral, humanitarian and Arab\u201d duty to support its neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stability of Iraq is the stability of Kuwait and the region,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nIraqi forces have regained swathes of territory from the Daesh group since the jihadists seized a third of Iraq and large parts of Syria in 2014<\/p>\n<p>In December, Baghdad declared victory over the group following three years of war.<br \/>\nThe Kuwait conference, from February 12-14, will devote its second day to the role of the private sector and civil society organizations in reconstruction, Jarallah said.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Al-Alaq, the secretary general of Iraq\u2019s Council of Ministers, said Baghdad and the World Bank had estimated reconstruction would cost at least $100 billion (84 billion euros).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time that the Gulf Arabs recognize that there can only be peace in the region with local cooperation. Lord knows that there is enough cash in the Gulf to rebuild Iraq. The faster that they can restore Iraq&#8217;s infrastructure the sooner Iraq will have it&#8217;s own oil profits to rebuild the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Arab News, in spite of the destruction that Hussein&#8217;s Iraq inflicted on Kuwait, the &hellip; <a title=\"Kuwait to host Iraq reconstruction summit\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77036\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kuwait to host Iraq reconstruction summit<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}