On the Iraqi national reconciliation conference

The Arab League said that the preliminary meeting of the Iraqi national reconciliation conference will be held in Cairo on November 19 and 21 under the auspices of its secretary general Amr Moussa who had called for it during his visit to Baghdad in October.

On the other hand, the UN secretary general Kofi Annan said in his first visit to Iraq since the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, called on the Iraqis to support the Arab initiative which aims at achieving the national reconciliation conference among their various groups. He expressed the support of the UN to the Arab initiative to achieving reconciliation aiming various groups of the Iraqi people. The Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari who had met with Annan stressed the need of continued political support and helping Iraq to achieve its next stations, especially organizing the elections which will lead to the founding of permanent government and parliament.