Urgent: Arbil Meeting of Iraq’s Political leaders open

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The meeting of the leaders of Iraq’s Political Blocs, was opened in Arbil on Monday, in response to a call by the President of Kurdistan Region’s President, Massoud Barzani, to settle the differeneces among those blocs to form a new government, assign a new prime minister and settle other suspended differences among the said blocs. Kurdistan President, Massoud Bazani, had launched an initiative on Sept. 16, 2010, calling for the formation of an 8-12-member committee, to represent different political blocs, to start talks aimed to settle the current suspended differences, discuss the formation of a national-partnership government, as well as the settling of the issue of the three leading Iraqi State presidencies. SKH/SR 2