Baghdad hosts many opposition figures
Baghdad, Mar. 18, P. 1
Iraqi people relies on results of second meeting of political powers that begins in Baghdad today and attended by about 500 Iraqi figures most of them represent parties not taking part at Govt. and parliament.
This meeting comes before days of holding Arab summit in Damascus that Iraq would attend by an official delegation headed by PM Noori Maliki.Speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani rejected holding reconciliation meetings outside Iraq as he pointed to that this meeting would give new facts about political process in Iraq.This meeting invited 700 Iraqi political figures, 550 of them aren't take part at state's institutions, without set red line about their backgrounds and belongingness, Dr. Tahseen Shekhli spokesman of the meeting said.