Iraq's government has made progress toward taking full charge of the country's security, but no deadline could be imposed for reaching that goal, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Tuesday, according to AP. «We still see substantial remaining difficulties but we also see improvements and progress in the direction which we all want to see, whereby Iraq can be full in charge of its own destiny,» Beckett told reporters in Berlin after meeting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. «We recognize that that is not something _ and I know how much this will disappoint you all _ that is not something on which anybody is going to try and put a date or a deadline,» she said. «This is a process of developing security, and developing service improvement, in which the Iraqi government is engaged and in which we, the international community, are supporting them.»
