Jaafari meets Hakim, ready to ease difficulties facing Maliki-Allawi meeting

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Former prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari expressed readiness to ease all difficulties facing the meeting between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and former premier Iyad Allawi. “Al-Jaafari held a meeting with Chairman of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council Ammar al-Hakim, with whom he discussed the latest political developments and the ongoing talks to form the government of national partnership,” said an official statement received by IraqiNews.com news agency. On May 12, Spokesperson of Al-Iraqiya Alliance, Hayder al-Mullah, had said that Allawi will held a meeting with Head of Dawlat al-Qanoon Alliance, Nouri al-Maliki, within the coming 48 house. “The meeting aims for finding a?mutual foundations between the two alliances to proceed with the national partnership concept,” Hayder al-Mullah said. He noted that the meeting will be the starting point for a series of other meetings between the two alliances “to crystallize the project of national partnership.”? Preliminary election results reveal that the two alliances are the biggest winners. SH (P) 2