Fed: Iraq could adopt Australian system of govt: PM
MELBOURNE, April 14 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard today suggested that a reconstructedIraq might benefit from an Australian-style federal system of government.
Speaking at the opening of the Commonwealth Law Conference in Melbourne, Mr Howardsaid there were similarities between the situation in Iraq and that in Australia.
"When you have strong ethnic and regional difference, it is only a federal system (ofgovernment) that can hold it together," Mr Howard said.
At the same time, Mr Howard said it was not the desire of the Australian government,or that of Great Britain or the United States, to impose a form of government that wasincompatible to the Iraqi people.
Addressing an audience that included the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair,Cherie Booth, QC, Mr Howard expressed his "profound respect and admiration" for the Britishleader.
He also said Australia would play a full part in the reconstruction of Iraq.
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