A more optimistic view of Baghdad meeting

It is not too surprising that the host country would put a more optmistic spin on results. HOwever there does seem to be planning for a followup meeting and they did set up working committees and both could very well be positive. No on walked out it seems either! The article is from Reuters.
Iraq says Baghdad conference a success
Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:14 AM EST



By Mariam Karouny

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq signaled that world powers and neighboring countries, including Washington and its adversaries Iran and Syria, had agreed in Baghdad it was vital to all to stop sectarian violence spreading in the region.

But while President Bush on Saturday ordered 4,400 more U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq on top of a force build-up he has already authorized, Iran called for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces on grounds they fueled violence.

After Saturday's Baghdad talks between senior officials, the United States said Turkey had offered to host a planned follow-up ministerial-level conference in April and that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would attend the meeting.

Two mortar bombs exploded near the Baghdad conference building shortly after the talks began. Elsewhere in the capital, a suicide car bomber killed six Iraqi soldiers and wounded about 20 in yet another day of violence.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki urged other countries in the oil-rich region to stop supporting insurgents and do all they could to help Baghdad, saying it was in everyone's interest to stop sectarian bloodletting from spilling over Iraq's borders.

"The meeting was constructive and positive in fact in its atmosphere and the composition," Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told a news conference. He said committees had been set up to cover security, refugees and fuel and power.