Letter tony blair to george bush

Lar Geoge, As you know, the US Department of Defense and the Programme Management Office (PMO) of the Coalition Provisional Authority are currently evaluating a total of seventeen bids for managing the Iraq reconstruction programme and for large-scale construction projects essential to the reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure. I am greatly encouraged by the fact that British companies are involved in bids for fifteen out of the seventeen PMO contracts currently being tendered. Many of these companies are bidding in partnership with US firms, including Halcrow, working with CH2M Hill and Parsons Group; Amec, in partnership with Fluor; Mowlem and Mott MacDonald in partership with Kellogg, Brown & Root; and Carillion, who are working with US and Australian partners. British firms have the technology and expertise in areas critical to the success of the reconstruction process. Water and sanitation, project management, power, oil & gas, construction and telecommunications are sectors in which UK expertise is recognised and acknowledged around the world including in the US. British firms also possess considerable experience of working in the Middle East, including in Iraq prior to the first Gulf War. For DECLASSIFIET in their bids for the development of local industries in Iraq. I believe that the involvement of British companies in the reconstruction process will help to achieve our shared objective of a stable, free and prosperous Iraq. Her wites. your ene, com The President of the United States of America DECLASSIFIET