Iraq Leaders Meet in Bid to Break 8-Month Deadlock
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Iraqi leaders called for unity as they met to try to end eight months of political deadlock and speed up the formation of a new government.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and former Premier Ayad Allawi, whose blocs are competing to be recognized as the winner of the March 7 elections, joined Kurdish and Sunni Muslim leaders in Erbil, capital of the northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. The session was aired live by state-sponsored al-Iraqiyah television.