Kurds Push Ahead with Shiites On Deal to Form Government

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › March 14, 2005

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Kurdish leaders converged on Baghdad for talks Monday with majority Shiites as both sides pressed to secure a deal to form a coalition government before the newly elected parliament meets for the first time this week.

Shiites and Kurds have been haggling over the makeup of the government since a new National Assembly was elected Jan. 30. The parliament meets Wednesday.

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Kurds Push Ahead with Shiites On Deal to Form Government

The political deal calls for Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader, to be named president. Conservative Islamic Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari of the Shiite majority Unite...

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