Iraq's Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks to Reuters in Baghdad September 11, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's finance minister called for deep-rooted reforms to stamp out corruption in a military that collapsed in the face of an Islamic State advance, as he prepares to spend nearly a quarter of the 2015 budget on defence.
Hoshiyar Zebari will push for about 23 percent of a proposed 2015 budget of $100 billion(63.41 billion pounds) to be poured into defence and security when it is presented to Iraq's cabinet "very soon".
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