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"Russian
companies must understand that if their government
does not pursue a consistent policy towards Iraq
they will not be able to return [to the Iraqi
market] Only a friendly state policy will allow
Russian businesses to come back to Iraq," the Iraqi
president said.
"Russia looks at Iraq through the prism of its
relations with the U.S., relations of friendship or
confrontation. Meanwhile, you must build good
relations with this government, with this
parliament, with the legal parties and political
groups," he said.
"The Russian government must revise its policy in
Iraq and be friends with the new regime. I assure
you this regime will stay for a long time and
terrorism will not be able to overthrow it," the
Iraqi president said.
Asked about Russian oil company Lukoil's contract
with the Saddam regime to jointly develop the
Western Qurna-2 oil field, Talabani said, the
Russian company had dealt "with Saddam, not with
Iraq."
"People look at all this with disgust now. The
parliament has even discussed the scrapping of all
contracts signed with the previous regime," Talabani
said.
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