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BAGHDAD, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Iraq's Shiite bloc is working to form a government of national unity.
The United Iraqi Alliance has set up committees to hold talks with Kurdish and Sunni groups in the new parliament, the BBC reported. The group says it will form a coalition with Sunni factions, but only if they do more to combat the insurgency.
The United Iraqi Alliance failed to win an absolute majority in December's vote and so must govern in a coalition.
Two leading Sunni politicians on Saturday expressed their interest in joining a coalition government.
"We will participate actively in the political process and we will cooperate with many political entities that share our principles," Adnan al-Dulaimi of the Iraqi Accordance Front, told the BBC.
Saleh al-Mutlaq, leader of a separate Sunni group, made a similar pledge. Both, however, called for an end to policies by the outgoing Kurdish-Shia coalition which they say victimize Sunni Muslims, the BBC said.
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