Handover Quotes

Within 24 hours, we spent about $800,000 as a compensation for the weapons in Sadr City, and the handover of weapons is increasing on a large scale. - Ayad Allawi

We will challenge these elements in Iraq, the anti-democratic elements, by even bringing the handover of sovereignty before June 30 as a sign we are ready for it. - Hoshiyar Zebari

We will be there until conditions are met for a handover to the Iraqis, when they have sufficient forces. This will not be an event; it will be a process. It will not happen at the same time in every part of the country; it will happen over a period of time. - John Reid

We can already do real-time handover between 3G and WLAN from a radio perspective, but there are commercial issues of billing and call management that the mobile operators are gong to have to work out. - Peter Kelly

We built a robust mission control system, but of course we did not have to extend this to include mission scheduling, data transfer or other routine phase activities as these will all be handled by EUMETSAT after handover. - John Dodsworth

We are not saying that everyone will be out by the end of 2006 but we are saying that this process...is going relatively well and in the course of the next year we could well see the handover to Iraqi forces at certain places in Iraq, including in our own area. - John Reid

There was nobody who did not welcome this handover and I do welcome this step again. - Gerhard Schroeder

The only thing missing from the retirement party for Blair was a gold clock. It's quite clear that there's an orderly handover taking place. What we saw is the new leader. - Paul Kenny

The Iraqi forces are becoming more capable on a daily basis, and so this was, I think, an important example of that process moving forward. It was... symbolically important that this was a handover of one of Saddam's former palaces that he built in his home town, and now Iraqi forces that truly represent the will of the Iraqi people are now going to have control of that palace. - Sean McCormack

The effect of the handover has been largely debated and talked about for a long period of time. - Joyce Chang