Iraq: Al-Maliki, Al-Shahrastani and oil development plannote

Iraqi PM Nuri Al-Maliki is reported to have held a meeting last week to discuss an oil development plan with Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahrastani and high-ranking officials of the Oil Ministry. The following 382-word report focuses on the issues and tells what the plan suggests. It also tells which countries are mainly preferred to carry out the plan and how the companies that belong to these countries will be treated.