Straw to push for Iraq government

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21 February 2006

UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is in Baghdad for talks with key political figures about the slow progress in forming a new Iraqi government.

He is meeting the president and prime minister on his surprise trip.

Correspondents say Mr Straw is likely to urge them to lay aside narrow ethnic and sectarian interests in favour of a government of true national unity.

Negotiations on forming a coalition government have faltered over divisions between Shias, Sunni Arabs and Kurds.

Political leaders have yet to start serious talks, and correspondents say they could take months because of objections to sectarian representatives being appointed to office.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4734912.stm



I guess things are going the way they planned?