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"I think the bitter differences of the war are over," Mr. Bush said at the close of a U.S.-European Union summit in Ireland before heading to Turkey, NATO's only Muslim member, for another summit. "There is a common interest and a common goal to help the Iraqi people."

The United States and the EU agreed in a joint statement to back Iraq's request for NATO military help and support the training of Iraqi security forces, and to reduce Iraq's international debt, estimated at $120 billion.

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said diplomats from the alliance had reached an initial agreement to respond positively to the request of the Iraqi Interim Government for assistance with the training of its security forces.

The agreement is expected to be sealed Monday and Tuesday when Mr. Bush meets the other alliance leaders at the summit in Istanbul.

The EU did not express support for more European troops in Iraq, as Mr. Bush had sought, but its expression of support for NATO training assistance was seen as an effort to bridge divisions between Western nations over the Iraq situation.

On the economic side, the United States and the EU signed an agreement Saturday to make the EU's planned satellite navigation system compatible with the existing U.S. Global Positioning System.