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Wide exterior Stockholm airport2. Wide of aeroplane taxiing on tarmac3. Mid of tail of aeroplane4. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon leaving plane, shaking hands with Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt 5. Wide of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eStockholm\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide exterior Stockholm airport\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of aeroplane taxiing on tarmac\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of tail of aeroplane\u003cbr/\u003e4. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon leaving plane, shaking hands with Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of Ban Ki-moon greeting officials on tarmac\u003cbr/\u003eStockholm\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Royal palace \u003cbr/\u003e7. Rice entering, shaking hands with Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish Prime Minister\u003cbr/\u003e8. Reporters at news conference  \u003cbr/\u003e9. Rice and Reinfeldt entering press conference\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English), Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State\u003cbr/\u003e\"Iraq is increasingly a functioning state. The question is: can it be a capable and functioning state. And one reason this meeting is important of the International Compact is that the Iraqis... This isn't a donor conference, the Iraqis don't need large sums of money, they do need large infusions of technical assistance, project support, helping to build adequate police forces, helping to build an adequate justice system, helping to build the capacity to execute their large budgets dow to the provincial and local levels. These are the kind of things that, now that the security situation is improving, I would hope that the international community would accelerate its efforts to help make Iraq a capable state.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So we had discussion about how we could put diplomatic pressure on Iran not to have a negative role, first of all in Iraq, but not a negative role in the whole of the region.\"\u003cbr/\u003eStockholm\u003cbr/\u003e13. Cutaway of cameraman\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm not going to comment on a book that I haven't read, but I will say that the concerns about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq were the fundamental reason for tens, for dozens of resolutions within the (UN) Security Council, from the time that Saddam Hussein was expelled from Kuwait in 1991 up until 2003.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Rice and Reinfeldt leaving \u003cbr/\u003eUpplands Vasby, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Stockholm\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide exterior of Scandic Infra City hotel complex where United Nations conference will be held\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid of flags outside hotel complex\u003cbr/\u003eUpplands Vasby, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Stockholm \u003cbr/\u003e18. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arriving at conference\u003cbr/\u003e19. Sign reading \"Iraq Compact Annual Review Conference in Stockholm\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of conference\u003cbr/\u003e21. Ban, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt walking onto stage\u003cbr/\u003e22. Officials\u003cbr/\u003e23. Al-Maliki taking seat\u003cbr/\u003e24. Back shot of Rice\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish Prime Minister\u003cbr/\u003e\"The International Compact with Iraq is a process that is, and must be, run by the government of Iraq.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of conference room\u003cbr/\u003eIraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on neighbouring countries to forgive debt and war compensation from Saddam Hussein's regime, saying that they impeded Iraq's development.\u003cbr/\u003eOpening a United Nations conference on Iraq, al-Maliki also praised his country's security and economic progress and said the government had kept Iraq from descending into civil war.\u003cbr/\u003eMore than 500 delegates from dozens of countries and international organisations were attending the conference outside Stockholm, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Iraqis don't need large sums of money,\" Rice told reporters ahead of the conference. \"They do need large infusions of technical assistance (and) project support.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"I would hope that the international community would accelerate its efforts to help make Iraq a capable state,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the press conference, Rice also rejected allegations from a former White House spokesman who says the Bush administration misled the American public into going to war with Iraq.\u003cbr/\u003eRice said she would not comment specifically on charges made by ex-press secretary Scott McClellan in a new book, but said President Bush was honest and forthright about the reasons for the war. \u003cbr/\u003eShe also said she remains convinced that toppling Saddam Hussein was right and necessary.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The concerns about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq were the fundamental reason for tens, for dozens of resolutions within the (UN) Security Council, from the time that Saddam Hussein was expelled from Kuwait in 1991 up until 2003,\" Rice told reporters.\u003cbr/\u003eThe conference comes as the US military says violence in Iraq is at its lowest level in more than four years, following a series of crackdowns on Sunni and Shiite extremists.\u003cbr/\u003eBan said there was new hope for the Iraqi people to rebuild their country after years of war, dictatorship and neglect but called for reconciliation among the country's Sunni Arabs, Shiites and Kurds.\u003cbr/\u003eIraq's Sunni Arab minority has long felt it is being sidelined by the majority Shiites and the Kurds, who dominate the Iraqi parliament and al-Maliki's government.\u003cbr/\u003eThe largest Sunni Arab political bloc pulled its members out of Iraq's 39-member Cabinet in August, saying it was not getting enough say in decision-making. \u003cbr/\u003eSunni politicians have been negotiating a possible return, but said Wednesday they suspended talks due to a dispute over ministry posts.\u003cbr/\u003eThe conference also offers an opportunity for sideline meetings between delegates. 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