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Finland: Iraqi Shia-Sunni officials meet confers ways to end violence
By: Anjum Kermani
HELSINKI, Finland: Shia and Sunni Arab officials from Iraq held talks in
Finland on Saturday September 1 to discuss ways to end the violence crippling
the country.
Talking to Reuters, a spokeswoman for Crisis Management Initiative director
of operations - the group organizing the gathering - Meeri-Maria Jaarva said:
“The seminar started well.”
An official from the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) said one of its
senior officials, Akram al-Hakim, was at the meeting. Hakim is a minister of
state for national dialogue in the Iraqi cabinet.
The official, speaking in Baghdad, said Sunni Arab politician Saleh Al Mutlaq
and a senior official from the Shia Dawa party of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
were also there.
Finnish national broadcaster YLE said representatives of anti-American Shia
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr attended, but two senior aides to the firebrand in
Iraq said they were not aware of the event.
Jaarva said participants looked at ways to stop the violence in Iraq and how
Iraq could use peace models from Northern Ireland and South Africa to settle
its own crisis.
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