Arabs Press Iraq to Meet With Opposition
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Iraq's neighbors, worried about low Sunni Arab turnout in the country's upcoming elections, are mounting a behind-the-scenes push to persuade the interim government to meet with opposition leaders in what they call a reconciliation effort.
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Jordan's king urges Iraqis to keep their country united, ahead of talks with President Bush and the Iraqi PM.
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An international conference on Iraq is expected to call on the government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to meet with its political opponents to encourage them to participate in the country's first democratic elections in January, according to a draft of the conference's final communique.
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Foreign ministers from the Arab world met with leaders from the West on Saturday at a conference dedicated to advancing political change in this region.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Arab delegations to an  international conference on Iraq said on Monday it might turn  out better to delay Iraqi elections beyond January to ensure  full participation.
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France's government and opposition showed  rare unity in appealing for the release of two Frenchmen held  in Iraq as an Italian envoy flew to the Middle East on Thursday  to urge freedom for two female Italian aid workers.
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BAGHDAD, 23 November 2004 - Some Arab delegations at a meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, with counterparts from Iraqâs neighbors and the United States among others, yesterday said it may be better to delay the polls in Iraq to ensure full participation.
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Iraqi government officials and their American military backers opened talks yesterday with aides of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in an attempt to end three weeks of fighting in the slums of northern Baghdad.
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The Arab League has formally asked its members to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Iraq. A draft resolution presented to the meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, called on the League&#39;s 22
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The Bush administration and interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi are pushing several Western and Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, to join in holding a conference in October to boost Iraq's electoral process, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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The interim prime minister of Iraq, Ayad Allawi, met here today with Sunni Arab leaders to try to persuade them to take part in the Iraqi elections planned for late next month.
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Arab officials and commentators said Tuesday they feared the budding dialogue between Washington and Iran could cut them out of the debate over the future of Iraq, one of the region's most important countries.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Radical Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr refused yesterday to meet with a delegation of Iraqi political figures that had rushed here from Baghdad with a last-ditch offer for peace, deflating hopes for a quick resolution to the confrontation between Sadr's militia and US and Iraqi security forces.
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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt -- Leaders meeting on Iraq's future plan to give strong backing to the interim government's war against insurgents but won't set a deadline for withdrawing US-led forces, despite a push by France and some Arab countries.
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Representatives of an Arab-American group and an antiwar group say they are urgently conferring with their attorneys on what steps to take after a federal judge turned down their request to gather in New York&#39;s Central Park and stage a
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Talks aimed at curbing bloodshed are under way attended by representatives of various groups in Iraq.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's ruling Shi'ite leaders on Friday urged neighboring and Western powers to join forces to prevent their country from sliding into all-out civil war that could spread across the region.