Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:02 GMT US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed confidence that Iraq elections eventually will be held despite a new delay. "We believe on balance that there will be elections," Clinton said. "They might slip by some period of time until this is worked out, because at some point the law has to be in place for the planning to begin, and so there necessarily needs to be a period of time in which the planning can occur”. "We support the Iraqi government's efforts to pass an election law so that they can proceed with planned elections," she told reporters. There's a number of ideas that we will be presenting, she added without elaborating. "We have every reason to believe that elections will be held which will be another milestone on the journey that Iraqis are taking toward full and comprehensive democracy," Clinton stressed.
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