French foreign minister arrives in Iraq
The French foreign minister arrived Saturday in the southern city of Nasiriyah for his second visit to Iraq in less than a year as Paris seeks to rebuild ties with the war-torn nation.
Bernard Kouchner was met by the Shiite vice president and the provincial governor after landing at a U.S. base in the city the morning after the base was hit by a rocket or mortar attack.
Kouchner, Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Aziz Kadhim Alwan, the governor of Dhi Qar province that includes Nasiriyah, then toured the nearby ancient ruins of the biblical city of Ur.