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Iraqi factions meet for Northern Ireland-inspired peace talks

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Iraqi factions meet for Northern Ireland-inspired peace talks

Apr 28, 2008, 15:55 GMT

Helsinki - Representatives of several warring Iraqi factions
said Monday they have concluded a second round of closed-door talks
in Finland.

Delegates said after the three-day meeting that they had agreed to
meet in Baghdad in July.

‘We have taken steps, even leaps forward,’ Osama Al-Tikriti of the
Iraqi Islamic Party said according to Finnish news agency STT.

They agreed on the principles of how to promote national
reconciliation and use dialogue to solve political disputes, a
statement issued by the convenors said.

The meeting was co-organized by the Crisis Management Initiative,
an organization headed by former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari,
who has served as mediator in various international conflicts.

Just like the initial seminar in September, delegates with
experience from bridging political and other divides in Northern
Ireland and South Africa took part.

‘We are delighted that it is the Iraqis themselves who have taken
ownership of this process by inviting us to Baghdad for the next
meeting,’ said project director, Professor Padraig O’Malley of the
University of Massachusetts Boston, US.

The Iraqi delegates included Akram Al-Halkim, minister for
national reconciliation, as well as Sheikh Hamoudi, chairman of the
Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) of the Iraqi National Assembly,
Fouad Maasoom, member of the CRC and member of the Kurdistan
Patriotic Union (PUK), and Dawa Party parliamentary leader Ali Adeeb.

Missing from the meeting were representatives of the Shia leader
Muqtada al-Sadr, who apparently missed their flight over an attack,
STT said.

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