British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held talks Saturday with Iraqi leaders less than a week after the announcement of expected British troop cuts in southern Iraq, the Associated Press reported. Brown was greeted in Baghdad's protected Green Zone by Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, whose office later released a statement saying the meetings «stressed the necessity of establishing a long-term Iraqi-British relationship.» Brown also met with top Iraqi advisers and President Jalal Talabani. Brown made no public comments.
