Gates pushes Iraq's leaders on reconciliation
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Iraqi leaders for talks in Baghdad on Saturday to tell them Washington is disappointed with their efforts to reconcile Iraq's warring factions and to move ahead with renewed urgency.
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Iraq's prime minister reached out to Sunni Arabs at a national reconciliation conference on Saturday, urging Saddam Hussein-era officers to join the new army and a review of the ban against members of the former dictator's ruling party.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki invited neighboring countries and world powers on Wednesday to a March 10 meeting in Baghdad, saying he hoped it would help bring reconciliation and support for his government.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a surprise visit to press Iraqi leaders to resolve their differences and ease raging sectarian violence that has killed thousands.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president yesterday renewed his call for Sunni-led insurgents to quickly join the Shi'ite prime minister's national reconciliation effort. A Shi'ite festival, meanwhile, drew millions of pilgrims without bloodshed yesterday.
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Meeting with leaders of the European Union in Brussels, the prime minister of Iraq&#39;s interim government, Ayad Allawi, has called for reconciliation with European nations and urged &quot;spectator&quot; states to engage in Iraq.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that were expected to involve a push for more progress on political reconciliation.
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The deterioratng Iraq situation is pushing both to look beyond their cabinets for solutions.
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Iraq's Sunni vice president held a rare meeting Thursday with the country's top Shiite cleric to seek support for a 25-point blueprint for political reform, the latest effort by both Islamic sects to promote unity amid unrelenting violence.
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Halting violent sectarian strife in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, will dominate President Bush's summit with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki next week in the Middle East.
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Robert M. Gates said the recommendations to be made public this morning by the Iraq Study Group would be important but not Âthe last word.Â
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit overshadowed by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, called on Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to urgently implement a national reconciliation roadmap.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has dispatched a team to Iraq to meet with Gen. David H. Petraeus and other senior commanders to "delve deeper" into the accountability of private security contactors, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish political leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key measures seen as vital to fostering national reconciliation.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Iraq's leaders on Saturday to use any lull in violence to push ahead with national reconciliation, adding that U.S. patience would not last forever.
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Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders announced on Sunday they had reached consensus on some key laws that Washington views as vital to fostering national reconciliation.
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As secretary of Defense, Robert Gates may be able to shape a bipartisan approach on Iraq and the war on terror.