CAIRO, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Iraqi leaders met during the weekend in Cairo, Egypt, to talk about a future reconciliation conference.
So far, the conference has produced more heat than reconciliation, the BBC reported. The Shiite president of Iraq and the Kurdish prime minister walked out for a few minutes after a leader in Iraq's small Christian community attacked the government.
"The Iraqi constitution is a fabrication coming from the occupation forces," Minas Ibrahim al-Yusufi of the Iraqi Christian Democratic Party reportedly told delegates.
Shiite and Kurdish leaders, including Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, also said that they would not talk to insurgents or former members of the Baath Party. Sunnis called that suggestion divisive.
"Jaafari's speech was characterized by a spirit of exclusion and he painted a rosy picture of the situation in Iraq," Hareth al-Dari, head of the Sunni Committee of Muslim Scholars, said.
The three-day conference sponsored by the Arab League ends Monday.
