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first uh your first and last name . I'm

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kiki Munshi . Okay . And how do you

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spell that ? K . I K . I . As the first

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name and Mun S . H . I . E . Okay . You

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tell me a little bit about what

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happened , what went on today with the

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PRT inauguration . But that was the

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inauguration is our official beginning

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of the PRC recognition from the

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ambassador and from Baghdad that we are

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full operating capacity . So the

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ambassador came uh we had a ceremony .

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We then came over to have a sit down

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with him and some Iraqi leaders in my

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office , a tour of the P . R . C . A

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press conference . That's it . What's

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the significance of the inauguration ?

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The significance is uh in practical

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terms we get some classes and gains

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from our T . I . Which does governance

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training work in real terms it's

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primarily symbolic symbolic of the fact

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that we're now recognized as a fully

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fledged PRT instead of a struggling

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wannabe . Okay . And what college is

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beneficial to the Iraqi people and also

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um well where can you explain what kind

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of think the RT does ? Alright , PRT

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basically tries to take care of a non

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kinetic work involved in the

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reconstruction of Iraq and I need to go

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a little further because reconstruction

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is in some ways of misleading name . We

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are not so much bricks and mortar

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although we do that as we are

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governance and economic development the

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non tangibles if you will . Uh we're

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trying to work with the provincial

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government to help it function

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effectively and well to shape the

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institution in a way that fits Iraqi

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culture . We're working with the

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economy and businessmen here in Diyala

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province to develop particularly

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agricultural industries and Business in

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general . And what

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uh what does as far as

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local Iraqis in the area , what can

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they expect the PRC ? I'm not

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sure that they'll see us at all . I

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think in fact it was successful . They

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will not see us but they will see

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Iraqis who are helped or inspired by

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what we're offering . Iraq has been a

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society that's been closed off for the

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last 30 years in some ways , especially

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to new information , new technologies ,

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new knowledge . Part of our mandate

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is to bring all of that to them and to

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present it in such a way that it makes

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sense and can be used in this context .

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Okay . How does it make you feel ,

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having the inauguration complete and

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finally inaugurated , primarily

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relieved , but very good . It was a

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very , very good and promising for us .

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But to have the ambassador here are

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local leaders recognize that explicitly

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said as much and I think it's also a

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recognition of the great work my team

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has done over the past six months .

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Okay . Everything I didn't ask you if

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you'd like to have . I don't think so .

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I think we've got everything . Okay ,

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thank you your job back . Oh , I'm the

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PRT leader , the team leader . Okay