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- The senior United Nations envoy for Iraq today
congratulated Masoud Barzani on his inauguration as
President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and
assured him that the UN was committed to helping
Kurdistan and the Baghdad Government establish good
relations.
In other news, Ashraf Qazi, the Secretary-General's
Special Representative for Iraq, welcomed the role
that the Secretary-General of the Iraqi Islamic
Party, Mohsen Abdel Hamid, is playing along with
other Sunni political leaders in supporting the
constitutional process.
The recent discussions between the two men focused
on the efforts underway to enable groups and parties
that were not represented in the Transitional
National Assembly to participate in the drafting of
the constitution and participate in the subsequent
referendum and elections scheduled for October and
December this year.
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