Iraqi PM urges for national dialogue to solve political deadlock

Baghdad : Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has invited rival political parties to a meeting on Wednesday to seek a solution to the political deadlock through a national dialogue.
“I invite the leaders of the national political forces to a national meeting at the government palace on Wednesday to launch a national dialogue for a solution to the current political crisis,” al-Kadhimi said in a statement.
Iraq is “experiencing political challenges and a political deadlock, along with their repercussions on the government’s performance”, Xinhua news agency quoted the caretaker Prime Minister as saying.
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Al-Kadhimi’s invitation came as the political disputes escalated in the past weeks between the prominent Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his rivals the Coordination Framework (CF), an umbrella group of Shia parliamentary parties.
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