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Exterior of World Economic Forum (WEF) Congress Centre2. Interior lobby 3. Wide of forum on Iraq and the future of the Middle East, panel, video screen4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi Vice President:\"Our...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior of World Economic Forum (WEF) Congress Centre\u003cbr/\u003e2. Interior lobby \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of forum on Iraq and the future of the Middle East, panel, video screen\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi Vice President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our new strategy in Iraq had been consulted with the administration and with Americans. We had a lot of visitors, senators coming, including Senator Kerry. We discussed with them all ideas, and we are hopeful and realistically optimistic about the new security plan in Baghdad, and we think Baghdad is a key issue of securing the country, and as you know security is the key issue, although it is generalised and we think that it is not enough. Economics is a security issue, politics is a security issue.\"      \u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of forum, panel, video screen\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of forum\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Kerry, US Senator:\u003cbr/\u003e''When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy et cetera.  So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East, in the world, really. I've never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.''\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e8. Interior lobby \u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of conference hall at Davos World Economic Forum, British Prime Minister arriving on stage \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e''I believe, as a result of recent developments, we are potentially on the verge of a breakthrough. Chancellor Merkel is providing excellent G8 leadership. China and India are participating constructively in the G8 + 5 process that Gleneagles established. ++ SPEECH CONTINUES SHOWING BLAIR ON LARGE SCREEN ++ They know that they would suffer if the environment degrades further ++ SPEECH CONTINUES SHOWING BLAIR AT PODIUM ++ They have every imperative to be part of a deal, provided it is one that allows them to grow their economies, so they can spread the prosperity they are creating to the millions in those countries still in poverty. And the mood in the United States, I think, is in the process of a quantum shift. The President's State of the Union address built on his addiction of oil speech last year has set the first US targets for reduction in petrol consumption. \"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid shot of panelists\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) John McCain, US Senator\u003cbr/\u003e''No one has been more articulate in describing the compelling need for action on climate change, than the prime minister.  And I bring you good news and that is that I think the United States Congress will act very soon on this issue and I believe that the administration will also.  I will freely admit to you that it is very late and may not be enough, but I think for the first time you are going to see some action on this compelling issue.''\u003cbr/\u003e13. Cutaway audience\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister (shown speaking on large screen):\u003cbr/\u003e\"We need proper, well-constructed means of conflict resolution ++SPEECH CONTINUES SHOWING BLAIR AT PODIUM++ and peacekeeping. What is happening in Darfur today is a scandal. It's not a problem, it is a scandal. Hundreds of thousands of people die or live lives of unbelievable risk and misery because we cannot assemble a proper peace agreement properly enforced with the full weight of the international community behind it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of exterior of Sheraton Hotel in Davos \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e16. Set-up presser with World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy arriving \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Pascal Lamy, Director-General of WTO:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think we got quite a clear sign from the US that trade promotion authority extension was necessary, that it will be requested from Congress. We all know when it expires. We all know that, if extended, this discussion has to take place before it expires, which leaves us with a window of opportunity, which, given what I said, everyone of you can identify.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e18. Lamy leaves\u003cbr/\u003eN.B. Rushes for this story are available on story G00775.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 2,400 business and political leaders, journalists, met for the fourth day in a row at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. \u003cbr/\u003eThe tumult in Iraq and the Middle East took centre stage early on Saturday, as officials and politicians, including one of Iraq's two Vice Presidents, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, and US Senator John Kerry, participated in a forum on Iraq and the future of the Middle East.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the forum, Vice President Abdul-Mahdi was keen to counter widespread US and European scepticism about US President George W. Bush's new plan to put up to 20-thousand additional US troops into the Baghdad area and western portions of Iraq, and make a big push along with Iraqi troops to pacify the capital.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are hopeful and realistically optimistic about the new security plan in Baghdad, and we think Baghdad is a key issue of securing the country, and as you know security is the key issue\", he said, but added; \"That it is not enough. Economics is a security issue, politics is a security issue.\"      \u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, Massachusetts Senator Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration, saying it has caused the United States to become \"a sort of international pariah.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKerry said the Bush administration has failed to adequately address a number of foreign policy issues.\u003cbr/\u003e\"When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy\", Kerry said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East, in the world, really. I've never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today, \" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eThe statement came as the Democrat lawmaker responded to a question about whether the US government had failed to adequately engage Iran's government before the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave a keynote speech on Saturday, concentrating on a range of issues including climate change, the European Union, conflicts in Africa and the Middle East.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said he could also foresee a positive breakthrough on combating the climate change and praised German Chancellor Angela Merkel for playing a leading role.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Fortunately, I believe, as a result of recent developments, we are potentially on the verge of a breakthrough. Chancellor Merkel is providing excellent G8 leadership.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHe also highlighted that China and India \"have every imperative to be part of a deal, provided it is one that allows them to grow their economies, so they can spread the prosperity they are creating to the millions in those countries still in poverty\". \u003cbr/\u003eBlair also welcomed US President Geroge W Bush's State of the Union recent address as setting \"the first US targets for reduction in petrol consumption.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"The mood in the US is in the process of a quantum shift\", he commented.\u003cbr/\u003eSaturday's talks on global trade realised only a vague commitment to trade liberalisation - a disappointment after business and political leaders called for progress in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks.\u003cbr/\u003eThe meeting in the Swiss Alps was the first joint attempt by trade and foreign ministers at reviving the talks since efforts to clear barriers to trade in farm goods and manufactured products acrimoniously collapsed last summer.\u003cbr/\u003ePascal Lamy, Director-General of the WTO said the negotiations have clearly changed in character since the pessimism of last July, but he could not predict when negotiators might be ready to take up again the hard numbers of a new trade deal.\u003cbr/\u003eNegotiators are trying to forge the blueprint of an accord before July (2007) , when US President George W. 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