Iraqi leaders agree on agenda for political summit by Bryan Pearson

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Iraqi leaders agree on agenda for political summit by Bryan Pearson
Sun Aug 19, 7:56 AM ET
Yahoo News
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq's fractious leaders on Sunday agreed on the agenda for a political summit called by embattled Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a bid to salvage his crumbling unity government.

The breakthrough came on the second day of preparatory talks involving the country's most senior political leaders, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said in a statement.

"We reached agreement on a number of issues," the statement said. "The most important is the agenda for the summit and who will attend the meeting."

Talks involving Maliki, Kurdish President Jalal Talabani, Hashemi, who is a Sunni, Shiite Vice President Adel Abdel Mahdi, and Masud Barzani, president of the northern Kurdish region, began on Saturday and continued into Sunday, an official from Talabani's office said .................SNIP"

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