Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was meeting Friday with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to urge continued German support in the rebuilding of his country. Allawi, on a three-nation tour that started in Jordan and will also take him to Russia, said he would press his message that Iraq is on the road to recovery, though a difficult one. "The path before us will be difficult, and sometimes bloody," he wrote in an editorial published Thursday in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "But stability, prosperity and democracy will win." Allawi called the German government's assistance "very important," and said he also hoped to encourage more German private sector investment in Iraq. He also planned to meet with German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer while in Berlin. Allawi, who arrived from Jordan on Thursday evening, was to continue on to Moscow on Friday afternoon.
