Politician reveals negotiations over project to transcend sectarianism

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: An Islamic Daawa Party leader has said that meetings between his party, the two main Kurdish parties and the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) have tackled a national project to transcend sectarianism and racism. “The meetings that took place in the past period between the political bureau of the Daawa Party, and leaders from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the IIP have focused on an Iraqi national project that aims to transcend sectarian boundaries and to support the stability that has been established in Iraq…,” Waleed al-Haly told IraqiNews.com news agency. In mid-May 2009, the Daawa party, led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, held talks with the KDP, led by the president of the Kurdistan region, Massoud al-Barazani. On June 6, a meeting was held with the PUK, led by President Jalal al-Talabani, ahead of another meeting with IIP leaders, which took place on Sunday (June 7). SS (P) 1