Hits a diplomatic grand-slam in the Arab states.
Not to mention his other homers and RBIs around the world.
Good job, Sir.
The Gulf countries pledged to waive a substantial amount of Iraq debts after "successful" talks with US special envoy James Baker.
After securing promises from a number of European and Asian countries to ease Iraq's crippling $120 billion debt burden, Baker made a whirlwind tour of four Gulf states to win over promises of writing off owed funds, despite their apparent reluctance to make financial concessions to Iraq.
"The mission in the four countries was very successful," a US adminstration official said in Saudi Arabia, the last stopover on Baker's tour which also took him to Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar.
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