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IRBIL, April 2 (KUNA) -- UN Secretary General's representative in Iraq
Martin Kobler Tuesday called on all Iraqi parties to sit on table of dialogue
and think seriously of the suffering of the Iraqi people.
"The UN urges all politicians to sit on table of dialogue and to seriously
think of the suffering of the Iraqi people who are in dire need of dialogue
and overcoming of political disputes," Kobler told a news conference held in a
mourning house, or Hussainiya, that was bombed last week.
Kobler rejected the attacks against mosques and mourning houses all over
the country.
He said the UN favored holding of elections in all provinces at the same
time, and that the Iraqi government should protect the candidates and create
safe environment for elections.
The Iraqi government announced last month postponement of elections in the
Nineveh and Anbar provinces for six months at the behest of the two districts.
Three people were killed and 83 others injured, including Shiite cleric Ali
Sistani's representative in Kirkuk Mohsen Battat in a bomb attack last month.
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