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BAGHDAD, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Politicians from some of Iraq's factions
will be invited to visit Cairo on Nov. 19 for a preparatory meeting before a
planned national reconciliation conference, a senior Arab League official
said on Wednesday.
An Arab League delegation has been visiting Baghdad to persuade
politicians from Iraq's Shi'ite, Sunni Arab, Kurdish and other communities
to attend the conference which had originally been planned for Nov. 15.
Billed as a way to heal deep sectarian rifts in post-Saddam Iraq, the
conference was put off while organisers tried to lure more people to the
table.
Speaking after talks at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Ahmed ben Hilli
said there would now be a meeting in the Egyptian capital, where the Arab
League is based, on Nov. 19 to prepare the ground for a main conference to
be held some time later.
will be invited to visit Cairo on Nov. 19 for a preparatory meeting before a
planned national reconciliation conference, a senior Arab League official
said on Wednesday.
An Arab League delegation has been visiting Baghdad to persuade
politicians from Iraq's Shi'ite, Sunni Arab, Kurdish and other communities
to attend the conference which had originally been planned for Nov. 15.
Billed as a way to heal deep sectarian rifts in post-Saddam Iraq, the
conference was put off while organisers tried to lure more people to the
table.
Speaking after talks at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Ahmed ben Hilli
said there would now be a meeting in the Egyptian capital, where the Arab
League is based, on Nov. 19 to prepare the ground for a main conference to
be held some time later.