The UK will spend at least an extra £100m on rebuilding Iraq, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has said. She said this would bring "total humanitarian and reconstruction support in Iraq" to £744m. Working with the Iraqi government and "unlocking resources" within the country continued "to be a British priority", Mrs Beckett was quoted as saying by BBC. She was speaking as an international conference on Iraq's future opened in the resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. Delegates from 60 countries, including US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, are expected to sign a five-year International Compact for Iraq, promising to provide Iraq with support in return for reforms.
