Iraqi Politicians Break Bread, but Not the Standoff, New York Times (2010)
Iraq’s leading politicians — government ministers, clerics and sheiks, in the absence of Ayad Allawi who is still claiming to form the Government — gathered Thursday over a lunch at Peace Palace. It was an effort to foster reconciliation after the country’s intensely disputed election, but ended with little of it in evidence.
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