# Breaking news

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**Created:** [June 28, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-news/55820 "2004-06-28T06:23:29Z")
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#### Post date: [June 28, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/breaking-news/55820/1 "2004-06-28T06:23:29Z")

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Iraqi handover ‘brought forward’

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\*\*The handover of sovereignty to Iraq is being brought forward from 30 June to today, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has said. \*\*

Mr Zebari was speaking after talks with the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

Mr Blair said a formal announcement would be made later. The BBC’s political editor Andrew Marr in Istanbul says the surprise move, which emerged at the start of a Nato summit, is an important symbolic step.

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